Concerts

  • I sing of a Maiden

    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…

  • Remembrance

    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…

  • Songs of Farewell

    Songs of Farewell

    Saturday 23 June 2018 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyMusic for a summer’s evening, including Parry’s masterpiece and swansong, the Songs of Farewell, written during and heavily influenced by the First World War. Organist Simon Clarkson Byrd Justorum animae Elgar They are at rest Finzi Lo! The full, final sacrifice Ireland Greater love Lewis The souls of the…

  • Mozart Requiem

    Mozart Requiem

    Monday 7 May 2018 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyOur annual concert as part of Sherborne Festival Chorus. Sherborne Festival Chorus Sherborne Classical Players Conductor Paul Ellis Mozart       Requiem K 626 and Litaniae in E flat K 243 This year we join the Festival Chorus and a period orchestra for one of the most famous works in the repertoire.…

  • Passion and Glory

    Passion and Glory

    Saturday 17 March 2018 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyMusic by Bach and Pachelbel for Lent and Easter For our first concert of 2018, we’re delighted to be collaborating with top period ensemble, In Echo, for a musical journey of German Baroque music through Lent and Passiontide, leading to the triumph of Easter Day. Pachelbel’s Canon in D…

  • Hark, the glad sound

    Hark, the glad sound

    Saturday 2 December 2017 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyGreat choral music from across the ages to celebrate the start of Advent, centred around settings of the Magnificat and Bob Chilcott’s settings of the Great ‘O’ antiphons. Biebl Ave Maria Briggs Trinity College, Cambridge Magnificat Byrd Vigilate Chilcott Advent Antiphons Dove Seek him that maketh the seven stars…

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