Concerts

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…

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.…

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…

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…

Saturday 24 June 2017 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbey English choral music for a summer’s evening After our Grand European Tour earlier in the year, this time we are staying at home: join us for a summer’s evening of British music from across the centuries. Some of the finest choral music written in the late nineteenth and…