The Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra invites Herald readersto a feast of music in Dorchester-upon-Thames
On a countryside walk one autumn day in 2015 my then-girlfriend Sophie and I reached the point at which the River Thame meets the River Thames, about 40 miles north-west of London. In the near distance we could occasionally glimpse the tower of the huge former abbey church of Dorchester-on-Thames. Making for it, as we entered the village we passed alongside a stone wall over which could be seen a bellcote belonging to a far more modest building. The sign told us that this was the Catholic Church of St Birinus, first Bishop of Dorchester in the first half of the seventh century.
