Concerts
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Psalmfest
Saturday 28 June 2025 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyA celebration of psalms! Including John Rutter Psalmfest
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Eternal light
Saturday 15 March 2025 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyUplifting music for Lent, featuring Tomás Luis de Victoria Requiem This sumptuous six part setting is one of the glories of the Spanish Renaissance. With its vivid colours and sonorities, it’s still a landmark choral work over four hundred years after its composition.
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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…
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Duruflé Requiem
Saturday 16 March 2024 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyUplifting music for Lent, featuring Duruflé’s classic setting, and music by Bednall, Bruckner, Byrd, Gjeilo, Poulenc and Victoria Organist Simon ClarksonCellist Beth Kitchen French composer and organist Duruflé’s wonderful setting of the Requiem is one of the classics of the repertoire, setting Gregorian chant in the context of the…