Concerts
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Baroque Christmas
Saturday 5 December 2015 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeySchütz The Christmas Story Praetorius Christmas Mass With In Echo and the Altenburg Ensemble Join us as we start the festive season off in Baroque style, with two joyous and colourful works from the early seventeenth century. Praetorius’ Christmas Mass is a reconstruction of a Lutheran mass as it might…
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The New Elizabethans
Saturday 20 June 2015 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbeywith Sherborne Young Singers, conductor Rosie Monaghan Organ Simon Clarkson Great British choral music for a summer’s evening We finish our season with a concert celebrating the best of British choral music, including music from today’s top choral composers such as James MacMillan and Jonathan Dove, and some of the well-loved composers…
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A German Requiem
Monday 4 May 2015 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyBrahms: Tragic Overture & A German Requiem Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder Sherborne Festival Chorus with Chameleon Arts Orchestra Melanie Armitstead Soprano Craig Bissex Bass Frances Bourne Mezzo Soprano Conductor Paul Ellis We’re delighted to be part of Sherborne Festival Chorus again for its annual concert in the Sherborne Abbey Festival. This year’s…
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Bob Chilcott – St John Passion
Wednesday 1 April 2015 at 7:30pmSherborne AbbeyWith Conductor Paul Ellis and Organist Simon Clarkson Presented as part of Holy Week worship in the Abbey, this twenty-first century setting of the Passion according to St John was written for Wells Cathedral in 2013 by one of today’s most popular choral composers, Bob Chilcott. Written for choir, soloists…
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St Matthew Passion
Saturday 14 March 2015 at 7:00pmSherborne Abbey With Baroque orchestra led by Alison Bury and Sherborne Young Singers A rare opportunity in the South West to hear this great work performed in its entirety, in German. First performed in Leipzig in 1727 on Good Friday, it is one of the masterpieces of sacred music and…
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Messiah
Saturday 29 November 2014 at 7:30pmSherborne Abbey With Baroque orchestra led by Alison Bury. Handel’s famous oratorio needs no introduction! Premiered in Dublin in 1742, Messiah became a huge hit and now receives world wide recognition as one of the best loved oratorios of all time. A regular, often annual, favourite with many choirs, it is in fact…