Classical Music

You are warmly invited to our monthly cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 22nd October at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. To mark the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’s birth, the service includes hymn tunes by the composer as well as ‘O taste and see’ as the introit. Other music includes: Sumsion ‘Magnificat […]

University Music's Orchestra and Choirs present An Autumn Elegy at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th October in Christchurch Priory. The programme includes Rutter's Requiem, Chilcott's Canticles of Light and, in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, Vaughan Williams ever popular The Lark Ascending. Our violinist soloist will be Nivedita Sarnath who, having studied […]

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The first part of tonight’s concert is centred around Vaughan William’s Mass in G minor. It celebrates firstly the 150th anniversary of his birth, and also the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the Mass. The second part of this concert was prompted by the death earlier this year of Joseph Horovitz at the […]

University Music String Ensemble present their Autumn Concert. Join us for this hour-long programme, which includes music by Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Rawsthorne in St Ambrose Church, Westbourne on Saturday 19 November at 5.30pm. Admission free, all welcome!

You are warmly invited to our Choral Evensong for Advent on Saturday 26th November at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Manz ‘E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come’, Dyson ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D’, Seal ‘Preces & Responses’ and Gibbons ‘This is the record of John’. Please join us for a […]

Pianist Alex Wilson is inviting audiences to join him on a musical tour through the songs and folk traditions of Europe at Christmas. We will explore the Christmas story and revel in the excitement of Christmas Eve; we will sing, bake and dance our way through nearly 300 years of musical storytelling. Our journey features […]

SHAFTESBURY ORCHESTRA plays Beethoven, Schubert and Dvorak

You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong for Epiphany on Saturday 28th January at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Poulenc ‘Videntes stellam’, Walsh ‘Preces & Responses’, Harwood ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A flat’ and Mendelssohn ‘There shall a star from Jacob come forth’. Chris Dowie is […]

Musical fundraising evening, in aid of CRESS Lent projects 2023 Saturday 4th March, 7.00pm – 9.00pm Knighton Manor, Broadchalke SP5 5EB Please join the CRESS team for a fabulous musical recital by Camilla Foster Mitchell singing a mixture of classical and contemporary music in the dining hall of the 16th Century Knighton Manor House. Cosr […]

You are warmly invited to our monthly cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong for Pentecost on Saturday 27th May at 4.30pm. The music includes: Tallis ‘O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit’, Neary ‘Preces & Responses’, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange ‘Kings College Service’ and Elgar ‘The spirit of the Lord’. Do join us for a glass of wine […]