News
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SCC New Season
Our new season leaflet is now available, with details of all our concerts in Sherborne Abbey through to June 2019! Download a pdf file here. This season’s programmes contain our usual variety of music, from Mexico to Estonia, and from the sixteenth century to the present day. In an extra concert on 10 November, we are…
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Celebrating Great English Music
Our June concert is a celebration of some wonderful English choral music. The centre piece is Hubert Parry’s heart-felt and truly amazing Songs of Farewell, which we include to mark his centenary year. Additional works include: Byrd Justorum animae, Elgar They are at rest, Finzi Lo! The full, final sacrifice, Ireland Greater love, Lewis The souls of the righteous, Parry Songs of Farewell, and Tomkins When David heard. We will…
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Concert Chat
Hear more about the background to our March 2018 concert programme as Gawain Glenton, Director of In Echo, and Rachel Greaves, Chair of SCC, discuss our forthcoming concert with Jenny Devitt on Abbey 104‘s ‘Local World‘.
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German Baroque for Lent & Easter
Passion and Glory in Sherborne Abbey on 17 March For our first concert of 2018, we’re delighted to be collaborating with top period band, In Echo, for a musical journey of German Baroque music through Lent and Passiontide, leading to the triumph of Easter Day. Formed by international cornetto player Gawain Glenton, who luckily for us lives…
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Hear our tour programme in Sherborne!
After a wonderful trip to Croatia, we’re back in Sherborne for the last concert of our season, in Sherborne Abbey this Saturday, 24th June. We spent a week in the World Heritage Site of Trogir, singing for mass and giving a concert in the historic churches there for local audiences and the many overseas visitors in Trogir.…
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SCC’s Grand Tour
We’re off on a European tour this March, though will be doing it from the safe confines of the Abbey! No politics, just great music! Join us on 18th March as we travel from Spain to Poland, Italy to Norway, with music from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Scarlatti’s wonderful multi-part Stabat Mater and…