Dorchester Abbey

Hallelujah, it’s time for Handel’s Messiah! Don’t miss this festive favourite, featuring the fabulous Hannah Fraser-Mackenzie, Charlie Tetley, Alex Haigh and Sam Hird as soloists

See in the New Year with us at Dorchester Abbey with a selection of joyful overtures and dances. From all-time favourites such as Strauss’ Blue Danube to lesser known gems such as Änderson’s The Typewriter, you’ll be whistling these tunes into 2022!

A heart-warming family concert hosted by the internationally renowned savant pianist Derek Paravicini and friends, including stunning young violinist Poppy McGhee, and acclaimed soprano Hannah Davey, and featuring young musicians on the autism spectrum – some performing for the first time in public. There will be music from a wide range of styles, including classical and jazz. Expect the unexpected!

Elgar's Enigma Variations present a bucolic image of pre-war Britain, his cello concerto is a much-loved staple of late Victorian English concert repertoire. Yoanna Prodanova plays on a Giuseppe Gagliano cello. We open with Brahms' Tragic Overture.

Mozart's last work, written as he drew his final breaths, is his most loving and human. Ave Verum, unlike the dramatic Requiem on which Mozart was working at the same time, is simple and humble; Mozart called it sotto voce (subdued).

The sacred oratorio for soloists and double choir and double orchestra, heralded as one of greatest pieces of Baroque sacred music.