Concerts
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O be joyful
Saturday 28 June 2025 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyGreat choral settings of the psalms Celebrate the ancient words of the psalms with us, and two birthdays! Sir John Rutter is 80 this year, Orlando Gibbons a little older, dying 400 years ago this year. Orlando Gibbons O clap your handsHandel Lift up your heads (from Messiah)Herbert Howells…
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Mozart Requiem
Thursday 1 May 2025 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeySherborne Festival Chorus & Chameleon Arts OrchestraConductor Paul Ellis Mozart: Requiem Haydn: Te Deum in CMendelssohn: Hebrides OvertureMozart: Exsultate, jubilate Soprano Amelia MonaghanAlto Amy PorterTenor Joseph HancockBass Florian Störtz We’re delighted to be part of the Sherborne Festival Chorus again and opening this year’s Sherborne Abbey Festival with a…
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Eternal light
Saturday 15 March 2025 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyUplifting music for Lent, featuring Tomás Luis de Victoria Requiem (1605) Banish the winter grey and the politics and be transported to the timelessness of some wonderful Spanish Renaissance music. Uplifting music for Lent from the sixteenth century to the twentieth in the atmospheric setting of Sherborne Abbey, featuring…
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J S Bach Christmas Oratorio
Saturday 30 November 2024 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyDon’t miss this rare chance to hear Bach’s magical setting of the Nativity in the Abbey, complete with a period orchestra of some of the top players in the country, led by Alison Bury. Soprano Katharine HawntMezzo-soprano Helen CharlstonTenor Edward WoodhouseBaritone Tom Butler Find out more about each of…
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Serenade to Music
Saturday 6 July 2024 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyJoin us to end our season and enjoy a summer’s evening of the best of British choral music in the stunning setting of Sherborne Abbey. Our progamme includes Vaughan Williams’ sublime Serenade to Music, commissioned in 1938 to celebrate Henry Wood’s fiftieth anniversary as a conductor. It was written…
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Fauré: Requiem
Thursday 2 May 2024 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeySherborne Festival Chorus & Chameleon Arts OrchestraConductor Paul Ellis Edward Elgar: Serenade for StringsGabriel Fauré: Requiem John Rutter: Magnificat We’re delighted to be part of the Sherborne Festival Chorus again and opening this year’s Sherborne Abbey Festival with two much-loved choral works, written 100 years apart. We mark the…