Concerts
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Magnificat
Saturday 30 November 2019 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeySCC fortieth anniversary season Our annual concert of inspirational music to celebrate the start of Advent and the Christmas season, with some of the greatest choral settings dedicated to the Virgin Mary from across the ages. This year’s programme is based around the traditional plainsong settings of the Advent…
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A Midsummer Marriage
Saturday 22 June 2019 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyA joyful selection of favourites chosen by brides and grooms for their special day, alongside sacred songs of love from the Song of Solomon, which contains some of the most beautiful love poetry ever written, inspiring composers from across the ages. Music includes popular favourites such as Rutter The…
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Mendelssohn: Elijah
Monday 6 May 2019 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeySherborne Festival Chorus with Sherborne Classical Players We’re delighted to be part of Sherborne Festival Chorus again for its annual concert in the Sherborne Abbey Festival. This year we perform Mendelssohn’s choral epic Elijah – an intense biblical drama which Mendelssohn brought to life with a powerful score full…
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New World Baroque
Saturday 16 March 2019 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyJourney with us and an ensemble of some of the finest Early Music instrumentalists to explore just a little of the vast treasury of music written in the two hundred years following the discovery of the Americas, which, surprisingly, still remains little explored in today’s global age. The establishment…
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I sing of a Maiden
Saturday 1 December 2018 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyInspirational 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…
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Remembrance
Saturday 10 November 2018 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyIn words and music We mark the centenary of the end of the First World War with an evening of words and music in memory of those who gave their lives. Proceeds will be in aid of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. Music includes: Bednall The Soldier Dams…