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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…
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Sherborne Abbey Festival
We’re looking forward to being part of Sherborne Festival Chorus’s tenth anniversary concert during Sherborne Abbey Festival on 2nd May in Sherborne Abbey. Both choirs will be performing an all-English programme by two of our best-loved twentieth century composers, including Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region and his own favourite choral work, Sancta Civitas. Top violinist Ruth Rogers…
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CD – Carols from Sherborne Abbey
Carols from Sherborne Abbey contains many familiar carols and arrangements by composers such as Howells, John Rutter and David Willcocks, including The first Nowell, In the bleak midwinter, The Shepherds’ Farewell, the Sussex Carol and many more, all recorded in the wonderful acoustic of the Abbey. The CD is a joint collaboration between Sherborne Abbey Choir…