Sherborne Abbey

Featuring Vivaldi Gloria

Join us for the first concert of the new season, in a new time slot in the Abbey. Enjoy an evening of choral classics old and new, featuring Vivaldi’s joyful setting of the Gloria, composed in Venice around 1715 for his choir of the Ospedale della Pietà.

Alongside this perennial favourite, we’ve chosen some more favourites that everyone will know, and some less well-known classics that we and our audiences have particularly enjoyed over the years.

• Bainton And I saw a new heaven
• Balfour Gardiner Evening hymn
• Duruflé Ubi caritas
• Franck Panis angelicus
• Grieg Ave maris stella
• Handel Hallelujah
• Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden
• Mozart Ave verum corpus
• Paulus The Road Home
• Stanford Beati quorum via
• Vivaldi Gloria
• Wheeler Beati quorum via
• Whitacre Water Night