Saturday 1 December 2018 at 7:30pm
Sherborne Abbey

Inspirational music to celebrate the start of Advent, with some of the greatest choral settings dedicated to the Virgin Mary from across the ages and including Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat Antiphon settings. Music including:

Bairstow Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Byrd Rorate caeli desuper
Rutti De Virgine Maria
Fawcett I sing of a maiden
arr. Ferguson People look East
Gardner Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Hadley I sing of a maiden
Howells Magnificat ‘Collegium Regale’
Martin Nowell, sing we
Pärt Magnificat Antiphons
Palestrina Rorate caeli desuper
Rachmaninov Borgoroditse Devo
Stanford Magnificat in G major
Vaughan Williams This is the truth sent from above

Organist Simon Clarkson
Conductor Paul Ellis