Concerts

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…

Saturday 8 April 2006 at 8:30pmSt John the Evangelist , Milborne PortA return visit to the village’s historic parish church on the eve of Palm Sunday, for a programme reflecting the seasons of Lent and Passiontide. Ticket details available nearer the time

Saturday 11 March 2006 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbey Our March concert brings together two twentieth-century works; one a well-loved classic, the other as yet less well known, but containing a brief flavour of nine of the UK’s most respected contemporary composers. Written in 1947, Duruflé’s Requiem has become one of the favourite choral works of the twentieth-century, popular…

Saturday 3 December 2005 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbey J S Bach Magnificat Cantata no. 182 Cantata no. 140 (Sleepers, Wake) Suite no. 3 in D (including Air on the G String) with period orchestra led by Margaret Faultless An all Bach programme to begin the season of Advent. After performing his two Passions and the B minor…