Music at Christ Church, Frome

Music at Christ Church, Frome Come to services and concerts at Christ Church in Frome. We attract local choirs as well as performers with national and international reputations.

See you at Choral Evensong on Sunday 6th September at 6pm.The music this month includes Rose, responses;Viadana, fauxbou...
01/09/2026

See you at Choral Evensong on Sunday 6th September at 6pm.

The music this month includes

Rose, responses;
Viadana, fauxbourdon Mag & Nunc;
Stanford, Beati quorum.

All welcome.

Before the Frome Festival winds down for another year, come to Christ Church this Sunday at 2.30pm for Jackdaws Songbird...
09/07/2026

Before the Frome Festival winds down for another year, come to Christ Church this Sunday at 2.30pm for Jackdaws Songbirds' annual concert! Their wayfaring singers have flown around the globe, gathering songs from the Arctic to the Equator, time-travelling across centuries to bring home a battered, bulging suitcase of fabulous ditties, wrapped up in joyous a ca****la harmony. Bring spare cash for glorious half-time treats and teas, and for the retiring collection for Jackdaws Educational Trust.
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Sunday 12 July
14:30~16:00 JACKDAWS SONGBIRDS (Free)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/jackdaws-songbirds/

Unticketed event, with retiring collection for Jackdaws Educational Trust.

This Saturday at 12 noon Christ Church Singers and director Alan Burgess perform sacred and secular songs in O Radiant D...
08/07/2026

This Saturday at 12 noon Christ Church Singers and director Alan Burgess perform sacred and secular songs in O Radiant Dawn! The programme includes selections from James MacMillan's Strathclyde Motets and his heart-rending setting of Robert Burns' poem 'The Gallant Weaver', Britten's gorgeous Hymn to St Cecilia and Five Flower Songs, and a group of beautiful Vaughan Williams arrangements of English and Scottish folk songs. Do join us for what will be a moving and uplifting experience!
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Saturday 11 July
12:00~13:00 CHRIST CHURCH SINGERS ~ O RADIANT DAWN! (£12)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/o-radiant-dawn/

Tickets are available on the door (cash and card both accepted) or in advance from the Cheese & Grain box office.

[Image of Botticelli's Birth of Venus alludes to Auden's words for the Hymn to St Cecilia: 'White as an orchid she rode quite naked / In an oyster shell on top of the sea.']

On Friday at 7.30pm Charles Wiffen, whose magnificent piano recitals have become a Frome Festival fixture, returns to Ch...
07/07/2026

On Friday at 7.30pm Charles Wiffen, whose magnificent piano recitals have become a Frome Festival fixture, returns to Christ Church with a recital for a summer's evening, which will feature an extraordinarily eclectic mix of pieces by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, John Adams and Paul McCartney. This event is in aid of Christ Church's building fund, Christ Church Future.
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Friday 10 July
19:30~21:00 CHARLES WIFFEN ~ PIANO RECITAL FOR A SUMMER'S EVENING (£15 / £5 U18s)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/charles-wiffen-piano-recital-for-a-summers-evening/

Tickets are available on the door (cash and card both accepted) or in advance from the Cheese & Grain box office.

This Tuesday at 6pm Musicke in the Ayre make their eagerly awaited return to Christ Church with Silver Sounds of the Rom...
05/07/2026

This Tuesday at 6pm Musicke in the Ayre make their eagerly awaited return to Christ Church with Silver Sounds of the Roman Seicento, a delightful programme of early Baroque music from Rome, with the voices of Maria Danishvar, Jane Hunt and Philippa Neaverson soaring over Din Ghani's archlute and baroque guitar in a happy hour of music that is intimate, expressive, and full of character - music that feels surprisingly direct, even four hundred years on. Don't miss it!
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Tuesday 7 July
18:00~19:00 MUSICKE IN THE AYRE ~ SILVER SOUNDS OF THE ROMAN SEICENTO (£15)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/musicke-in-the-ayre-silver-sounds-of-the-roman-seicento/

Tickets are available on the door (cash and card both accepted) or in advance from the Cheese & Grain box office.

This Monday at 7.30pm come to Christ Church for Masters of Baroque, a marvellous concert by Salisbury-based chamber grou...
04/07/2026

This Monday at 7.30pm come to Christ Church for Masters of Baroque, a marvellous concert by Salisbury-based chamber group Ebble Baroque, whose members were involved in last night's packed Bach by Candlelight concert.

Miranda Dodd (baroque violin and recorder), Matthew Dodd (baroque bassoon) and Matthew Nisbet (archlute, theorbo and baroque guitar) will perform works by well-known composers such as Telemann, Handel and Bach alongside less familiar names such as Zamboni and Stradella. It promises to be another special Frome Festival concert!
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Monday 6 July
19:30~21:15 MASTERS OF BAROQUE ~ A JOURNEY THROUGH THE 17TH
AND 18TH CENTURIES (£15 / £5 U18s)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/masters-of-baroque-a-journey-through-the-17th-and-18th-centuries/

Tickets are available on the door (cash and card both accepted) or in advance from the Cheese & Grain box office.

Next week Christ Church's Frome Festival weekday lunchtime concert series returns for a fourth year! Each day from Monda...
03/07/2026

Next week Christ Church's Frome Festival weekday lunchtime concert series returns for a fourth year! Each day from Monday to Friday at 1pm there will be a different recital lasting an hour. Tickets are £8 for individual concerts, or buy a series pass for £30 (available from the box office or on the door), representing a saving if you come to four or more of the concerts. Value for money!

On Monday 6 July Jane Osmani-Pearce and David Turner present a varied programme of late Romantic and contemporary music for flute and piano. Works will include Carl Reinecke's wonderful and exuberant Flute Concerto in D, and Debussy's Syrinx for flute and Clair de lune for piano.

On Tuesday 7 July the Julian String Quartet will perform one of the great masterpieces of the repertoire, Beethoven's quartet in A minor, op. 132. Written at a time of great personal struggle as the composer contemplated his own mortality, the work nevertheless contains hope, joy and profound beauty.

On Wednesday 8 July Richard Pinnock, Gareth Burgess and Alan Burgess join forces to celebrate composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears, partners in life as well as in music, with a selection of songs they performed together and apart, including works by Purcell, Schubert and Britten himself, enhanced by readings from their amusing and poignant letters to each other.

On Thursday 9 July Ashley Marshfield gives the third in our series of Festival 'alphabetical' organ recitals, featuring music by composers with names from J to M, an evocative journey through three centuries of organ music from Baroque and Romantic sonatas to colourful 20th-century works.

Finally, Friday 10 July sees the return to Christ Church of string2string (Chris Hurn and Stefano Vandelli) with their magical and fluid combination of the classical cello and West African kora in 'Pravaha'. This is a Sanskrit word meaning flowing or streaming forth as in the continuous movement of water and air, and is the title of their second CD.

Do come!
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Monday 6 July
13:00~14:00 IVORY AND GOLD ~ MUSIC FOR FLUTE AND PIANO
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/ivory-and-gold-music-for-flute-and-piano/

Tuesday 7 July
13:00~14:00 A SONG OF THANKSGIVING ~ BEETHOVEN'S STRING QUARTET IN A MINOR, OP 132
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/a-song-of-thanksgiving-beethovens-string-quartet-in-a-minor-op-132/

Wednesday 8 July
13:00~14:00 HOW LOVE CAME IN ~ A TRIBUTE TO BRITTEN AND PEARS
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/how-love-came-in-a-tribute-to-britten-and-pears/

Thursday 9 July
13:00~14:00 ALPHABET 3 ~ MEDITATION TO RADIANCE: ORGAN RECITAL BY ASHLEY MARSHFIELD
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/alphabet-3-meditation-to-radiance-organ-recital-by-ashley-marshfield/

Friday 10 July
13:00~14:00 PRAVAHA ~ STRING2STRING CELLO AND KORA DUO
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/pravaha-string2string-cello-and-kora-duo/

Tickets and series passes are available on the door (cash and card both accepted) or in advance from the Cheese & Grain box office.

There are two more great Frome Festival events at Christ Church this Sunday.Join us at 6pm for Christ Church's monthly s...
02/07/2026

There are two more great Frome Festival events at Christ Church this Sunday.

Join us at 6pm for Christ Church's monthly service of Choral Evensong, an oasis of peace in a hectic world. The music will include 'Expectans expectavi' by Charles Wood (1866-1926), the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in E major by Herbert Murrill (1909-1952) and 'Give us the wings of faith' by Ernest Bullock (1890-1979).

Then stay around for 'Love and Sorrow' at 7.45pm, a duo recital by two award-winning artists. Pianist Nicola Meecham, whose piano recital at last year's Festival was such a memorable event, will play Schubert's remarkable late piano sonata in A, D.959, and be joined by Claudia Huckle, recently acclaimed by Classical Music magazine as one of the best contraltos of all time, for Wagner's beautiful Wesendonck-Lieder.
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Sunday 5 July
18:00~19:00 CHORAL EVENSONG (Free)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/choral-evensong/
19:45~21:00 LOVE AND SORROW ~ AN EVENING OF MUSIC FOR PIANO AND VOICE (£15 / £5 U18s)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/love-and-sorrow-an-evening-of-music-for-piano-and-voice/

Tickets are available on the door (cash and card both accepted) or in advance from the Cheese & Grain box office. Free events are unticketed.

Sunday 5 July at 6pmChoral Evensong in the Frome FestivalWe'd love to welcome as many people as possible to this lovely ...
01/07/2026

Sunday 5 July at 6pm
Choral Evensong in the Frome Festival

We'd love to welcome as many people as possible to this lovely evening service of music, hymns and prayers.

Music for this service during the Frome Festival includes:

Introit: Wood, 'Expectans expectavi'
Preces and Responses: Sumsion
Psalm 56 (Garrett)
Evening Canticles: Murrill in E
Anthem: Bullock 'Give us the wings of faith'

Hymns are 'Angel Voices' and 'The day thou gavest'

Free event. Collection for church funds.

All welcome

Christ Church has two super Frome Festival concerts lined up this Saturday!We start at 11am with Frome Youth Choir's 'El...
01/07/2026

Christ Church has two super Frome Festival concerts lined up this Saturday!

We start at 11am with Frome Youth Choir's 'Elemental!', featuring a range of music, new and old, exploring our world and universe in all its forms sung by local children aged 6-14. There will be a raffle supporting Frome Youth Choir, Christ Church and Frome Festival.

Then at 7.30pm chamber ensemble Quorum play Ravel's sumptuous string quartet before being joined by pianist Charles Wiffen for Bartók's youthful piano quintet, which combines the composer's Hungarian nationalistic style with his early passion for Richard Strauss. Don't miss it!
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Saturday 4 July
11:00~12:00 FROME YOUTH CHOIR ~ ELEMENTAL! (Free)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/frome-youth-choir-elemental/
19:30~21:30 QUORUM WITH CHARLES WIFFEN (£15)
https://fromefestival.co.uk/event/quorum-with-charles-wiffen/

Tickets are available on the door (cash and card both accepted) or in advance from the Cheese & Grain box office. Free events are unticketed.

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