Concerts
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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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Spirit of England
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…
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Sherborne Abbey Festival concert
Monday 1 May 2017 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyElgar The Dream of Gerontius With Sherborne Festival Chorus and Chameleon Arts Orchestra Frances Bourne mezzo soprano (The Angel) Toby Spence tenor (Gerontius) Peter Savidge baritone (The Priest/The Angel of the Agony) Paul Ellis conductor Part of Sherborne Abbey Festival. Click here to find out more about the Festival and book online.…
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A Grand Tour
Saturday 18 March 2017 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyJoin us as we embark on a musical trip across Europe, from Spain to Poland, Italy to Norway, with music from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. No politics – just great music! The main works are the French composer Langlais’ Messe Solennelle, written in 1951, along with Scarlatti’s wonderful…
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From Darkness to Light
Saturday 3 December 2016 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyGreat choral music from across the ages to celebrate the start of Advent, centred around settings of the Magnificat and Ave Maria. Finzi Magnificat Schütz German Magnificat Eriks Ešenvalds Magnificat Gibbons This is the record of John Byrd Laetentur coeli James MacMillan O Radiant Dawn Praetorius arr. Sandstrom Es ist…
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In Memoriam Amelia Berkeley
Saturday 3 September 2016 at 6:00pmBradford Abbas ChurchA charity concert in aid of Above and Beyond to raise money for better facilities for bereaved parents within Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Fauré Requiem Organist David Bruce-Payne Soloists William Ellis and Amelia Monaghan Amelia, the young granddaughter of one of our altos, Liz Ashmead, died very…