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Handel and Bach
Rowan Pierce (soprano)
This highlight Festival concert opens with Bach’s First Orchestral Suite – an immensely popular genre in the late 18th century, playing on the dance forms of the day. Handel follows: the charming pastoral air ‘Sweet Bird’ and the alternately stately and lively Third concerto grosso of his op.3 set. Finally, Bach’s sublime secular cantata Ich bin in mir vergnugt professes that the greatest riches are to be found not outside of ourselves but within.
Sherborne Abbey Festival
Fri, 2 May 2025
Sherborne Abbey 
7:30pm
£30, £25, £15, £10
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This highlight Festival concert opens with Bach’s First Orchestral Suite – an immensely popular genre in the late 18th century, playing on the dance forms of the day. Handel follows: the charming pastoral air ‘Sweet Bird’ and the alternately stately and lively Third concerto grosso of his op.3 set. Finally, Bach’s sublime secular cantata Ich bin in mir vergnugt professes that the greatest riches are to be found not outside of ourselves but within.
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Location
Sherborne Abbey
Abbey Cl, Sherborne DT9 3LQ
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