Saturday 2 December 2017 at 7:30pm
Sherborne Abbey
Great choral music from across the ages to celebrate the start of Advent, centred around settings of the Magnificat and Bob Chilcott’s settings of the Great ‘O’ antiphons.
Biebl Ave Maria
Briggs Trinity College, Cambridge Magnificat
Byrd Vigilate
Chilcott Advent Antiphons
Dove Seek him that maketh the seven stars
Jackson I look from afar
Howells Magnificat ‘Gloucester Service’
Lauridsen O magnum mysterium
Mendelssohn How lovely are the messengers
Mendelssohn Richte mich, Gott
Poulenc Salve Regina
Stopford Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Organist Simon Clarkson
Conductor Paul Ellis
Tickets £5-£16, students under 18 free of charge. Available from 23 October from Sherborne Tourist Information Centre, Digby Road, Sherborne, 01935 815341.