Concerts

Saturday 18 October 2008 at 8:30pmSherborne Abbey Haydn St Nicholas Massandmusic from the choir’s new CD, Comfort, Life and Love, which will be launched at the concert and sold in aid of the Hospice movement, including music by Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Whitacre and Byrd. Organ David Bednall Organised by the Rotary Club of Sherborne Castles. £5-£15

Monday 5 May 2008 at 8:30pmSherborne AbbeyA joint concert with Sherborne Festival Chorus as part of Sherborne Abbey Festival, including Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony and Serenade to Music, James MacMillan’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and Arnold Bax’s Tintagel. Further details and tickets available at http://www.sherborneabbey.org, where details of the full Festival programme can also…

Saturday 8 March 2008 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbey A performance of one of the greatest works in the repertoire, the week before Palm Sunday. The first of Bach’s two surviving Passion settings to be written, the St John Passion was first performed in Holy Week 1724, as part of a church service, and shows Bach’s towering…

Saturday 1 December 2007 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbey Monteverdi’s glorious Vespers for the Blessed Virgin of 1610 is a magnificent setting of a complete liturgical Office in which the composer, disgruntled with his employer, set out to display the full range of his talents. The result is an astonishing variety of virtuosic music in many different…

Saturday 13 October 2007 at 2:30pmSherborne AbbeyEveryone is welcome to join us for an enjoyable afternoon of singing conducted by Paul Ellis, followed by an informal evening concert at 7pm. Rehearsal from 1.30pm, registration from 12.45pm. Singers please register in advance. Dress informal, students under 18 free of charge. Singers £15, concert tickets £5 on…

Saturday 22 September 2007 at 8:30pmSherborne Abbey A concert organised by The Rotary Club of Sherborne Castles in aid of St Margaret’s Hospice. Fauré RequiemRutter Psalmfest £5-£15