Saturday 17 March 2012 at 7:30pm
Sherborne Abbey

With the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
Be transported to the splendour of 16th century Venice for this concert of music by Monteverdi and Gabrieli. The programme contains a wide variety of textures of voices and instruments, with solo and multi-voice works for choir and instruments and instrumental music from one of the country’s top period ensembles.

The programme includes:

Giovanni Gabrieli

Omnes gentes plaudite manibus
Exsultavit cor meum
O quam suavis
Claudio Monteverdi

Beatus vir
Cantate Domino
Magnificat a8
Dixit Dominus (1640)
Plus solo and instrumental items.