Concerts

Monday 2 April 2007 at 8:30pmSherborne Abbey Widely regarded as one of the finest achievements of one of today’s pre-eminent composers, MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross for choir and strings uses traditional text based on a compilation from all four gospels to form a sequential presentation of the last seven sentences uttered by Christ. The…

Saturday 10 March 2007 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbey An all Handel programme: Dixit Dominus, Chandos Anthem No. 9, Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music suites, with period orchestra. An all Handel programme featuring some of his most exuberant and colourful works. Dixit Dominus, a setting of Psalm 110, was written when the composer was only 22 and on his first…

Monday 11 December 2006 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyJoin SCC and a band of medieval wind, pipes and drums from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre for festive music old and new. Medieval carols and instrumental music, Latin American Baroque and contemporary settings of medieval texts, along with carols for everyone to join in.  £5-£15

Saturday 4 November 2006 at 1:00pmSherborne AbbeyJoin SCC and Paul Ellis for an enjoyable afternoon of informal music making, followed by an early evening performance starting at 5.30pm. This year’s programme will be Haydn’s Nelson Mass, along with other popular choral works including Zadok the Priest and I was Glad. £10 for singers, £5 for audience members

Saturday 10 June 2006 at 8:30pmSt Mary’s Church, Dorchester Our summer concert takes us across the Atlantic for a wide range of music from North and Central America. We explore the rich Baroque heritage of Latin America, including the exuberant setting for double choir of the Mass Ego flos campi by de Padilla. Padilla was a seventeenth…

Saturday 29 April 2006 at 8:30pmSherborne Abbey Haydn The Creation With period orchestra Soprano Sarah Poole, Tenor Julian Podger, Bass Thomas Guthrie We are delighted to be involved in a brand new venture as part of the 2006 Sherborne Abbey Music Festival, with the inaugural performance of the Festival Chorus. Directed by Paul Ellis, the Chorus…