Music for Passiontide: Thurs 29 March, St Francis Church, Ngong Road (just before the turning onto Karen Road) Karen, 7:30pm
This concert will feature choral music written in the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries to be sung in Holy Week. It will be sung by an amateur chamber group led by Stuart Tibbs. The main work is the setting of the St John Passion by Heinrich Schutz (English translation) written sixty years before the Bach version. Schutz’s Passion is a beautiful, dramatic and moving account of events from Jesus’ arrest in the Garden of Gethsamane up to his Crucifixion. Jamie Munn will sing the Evangelist, Stuart Tibbs will sing the parts of the characters.
The programme will start with Maurice Durufle’s setting of Ubi Caritas et Amor, a hymn for Maundy Thursday and the last supper. Then there will be two settings of psalms associated with Lent: a plainchant version of Psalm 22; and Allegri’s famous version of Psalm 51 – Miserere Mei. After the Schutz, the concert will finish with a short but stunning 8-part setting by Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus.
Tickets (KSh 200) will only be available on the door. The church can seat at least 300 people; seats will be allocated first come first served.