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  • SOMERSET CHAMBER CHOIR CONCERT

    Wells Cathedral Cathedral Green, Wells

    • Amadeus Mozart – Great Mass in C minor, K427 • Ola Gjeilo – The Spheres • Ola Gjeilo – Identity • Ola Gjeilo – The Ground (from Sunrise Mass) • Joseph Haydn – The Representation of Chaos (from the Creation) • Felix Mendelssohn – Psalm 95, Op.46

  • The Gentlemen of St John’s In Concert

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    On Saturday 17 September at 6.30pm in St Peter's Church Dorchester (DT1 1XA), a septet from the internationally-renowned vocal ensemble The Gentlemen of St John's will present a concert. The varied programme will include music drawn from their repertoire, which spans some 600 years! Enjoy around 70 minutes of world-class choral singing, then meet the […]

    £12
  • Choral Evensong

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    You are warmly invited to our monthly cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 24 September at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. Music includes: Victoria ‘O quam gloriosum’, Noble ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B minor’, Smith ‘Preces & Responses’ and Howells ‘O pray for the peace of Jerusalem’. Chris Dowie is at the […]

    Free
  • Share the Magic featuring Apollo5

    Layard Theatre Canford School, Canford Magna, Wimborne

    Join Rising Voices Wessex and Apollo5 for an evening of fun vocal music celebrating the joys of singing. The international award-winning British vocal ensemble Apollo5 delights audiences with versatile and engaging performances on the concert platform, singing repertoire ranging from renaissance, classical and contemporary choral music to folk, jazz and pop. Rising Voices Wessex community […]

    £20
  • Choral Evensong

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    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 […]

    Free
  • An Autumn Elegy

    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 […]

    £12 – £50
  • Distant Lands – A Concert of Words and Music

    St Peter's Church Bournemouth Hinton Road, Bournemouth

    Through continued technological progress and innovation, the world, in many ways, has never seemed smaller. For global tourists, the relative ease and comfort of travel has made once impossible journeys commonplace experience. Through ever-present modes of media and communication, we have come to be familiar with unknown places and peoples. Yet for all this progress, […]

    Free
  • The Farrant Singers’ Autumn Concert

    St. Martin's Church, St. Martin's Church Street, Salisbury

    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 […]

    £5 – £17
  • University Music String Ensemble Concert

    St Ambrose Church West Cliff Road, Bournemouth

    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!

    Free
  • Choral Evensong

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    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 […]

    Free
  • Noël – a concert by candlelight

    st peter's church, Shaftesbury High Street, Shaftesbury

    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 […]

    £10