Music
Important Announcement
Friday 22 September 2023, The Victorian Hall will also be closed all day for a private function. The Fine Foundation Dorset Story Space, next the the Thomas Hardy's Dorset Gallery will also be closed for an hour around Midday.
January 14, 2023
Mathilde Milwidsky, violinist and Annie Yim, Pianist
A most interesting programme of two standard friends alongside a very early work by Ravel, two short pieces by a once forgotten, now increasingly admired figure, and one of the pinnacles of the solo violin repertoire.
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January 14, 2023
Wessex Ensemble
A masterpiece of the classical quintet repertoire alongside two less well-known but fine works, each demonstrating the enriching influence of folk music; Vaughan Williams writing at the height of his involvement with English folksong and Dvorak intrigued by the native Indian music he encountered in the USA.
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January 14, 2023
Iyad Surghayer, Pianist
“He captures the music’s essence with such a close sense of recreative identity that it feels on occasion as though he could be composing it as he goes along. An outstanding debut”
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January 14, 2023
Cordiera Piano Trio
A varied programme ranging from J.S. Bach’s most revolutionary son to a vivid and exciting contemporary American work by way of two pillars of the standard chamber music repertoire.
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January 14, 2023
Solem Quartet
Two richly inventive quartets by composers in their young manhood together with a work that is helping to draw its composer out from the shadowy position of being ‘merely’ Robert Schumann’s wife.
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January 14, 2023
Antonina Suhanova, Pianist
A return visit from a player who so impressed us two years ago. Antonina’s programme will contrast the resignation of Brahms’ Indian summer with the turmoil of the Second World War seen from the Soviet standpoint.
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November 9, 2022
I Grew Up 80s | Opening Disco
Travel back in time and celebrate the opening of our new exhibition- I Grew up 80s with a family-themed disco and family craft activities.
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November 9, 2022
I Grew Up 80s | Joy of Decks
Vinyl Van in collaboration with Dorset Museum will open its doors from 7.30 – 10 pm in our iconic Victorian Hall and invite customers to take over the decks, spinning their favorite tunes as part of a special 1980s-themed Joy of Decks event.
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August 16, 2022
Frei aber Einsam (Free but lonely)
Special late opening: The Dorset Museum is free to visit for concert ticket holders from 6.30pm Tickets £30/£10 (students & universal credit) Free entry to 25…
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