In this time of pandemic, the ordination of Priests and Deacons this Michaelmas takes place at a number of churches. The Abbey will livestream the services Links to each live stream will be posted here in the coming days. Simply click the [+] button below the service for how to connect. In most instances, a recording [...]
Karlowicz ‘String Serenade’ Hurd ‘Love bade me welcome’ motet for choir Tchaikovsky ‘String Serenade’ Strings of Orchestra of St John’s OSJ Ashmolean Voices John Lubbock conductor This is the fourth of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. To allow as many as possible to attend, we are offering two identical [...]
Glazunov ‘Intermezzo Romantico’ Faure ‘Four songs’ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ‘African Suite: Danse nègre’ Wagner ‘Siegfried idyll’ Ilona Domnich soprano Orchestra of St John’s John Lubbock conductor This is the third of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. Each orchestral concert features an unknown masterpiece discovered by John Lubbock in the [...]
Mozart ‘Sonata in B Flat, KV 454’ Brahms ‘Sonata No 2 in A major op. 100’ Ravel ‘Tzigane’ Jan Schmolck violin Tim Horton piano This is the second of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. To allow as many as possible to attend, we are offering two identical concerts of [...]
Bloch ‘Concerto Grosso’ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ‘Summer is Gone’ motet for choir Dvorak ‘Serenade for strings’ Strings of Orchestra of St John’s OSJ Ashmolean Voices John Lubbock conductor This is the first of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. Each orchestral concert features an unknown masterpiece discovered by John Lubbock in [...]
Brahms Requiem Faure La Mort de Melisande Berlioz La Mort d’Ophelie Sibelius The Death of Melisande OSJ Voices Orchestra of St John’s Conductor John Lubbock
Another Corona Strings special – a concert of romantic music for Valentines! Top of the bill is Tchaikovsky’s magnificent Serenade for Strings along with stunning works by Nordic composers Sibelius and Nielsen. Also featured in this concert is the delightful concerto for Guitar and Strings by Vincent Lindsey-Clark for which the orchestra is joined by [...]
The centrepiece of BCS's Summer Concert will be Rossini's lively classic Petite Messe Solennelle
The centrepiece of BCS's Spring concert in March will be Vaughan Williams' epic Sea Symphony plus Greigs Piano Concerto.
Join us for a unique storytelling event in Dorchester Abbey with special guests, Narnia enthusiasts and experts Francis Spufford and Colin Duriez, supported by members of the Abbey Team
