Join Ealing Choral Society for an intimate concert of dramatic works for the Lenten season. The centrepiece of the concert is Heinrich Schütz's luminous Musikalische Exequien, written for the funeral of his employer Count Henry II of Reuss-Gera. Henry II had planned the service himself and chosen the texts, some of which are scriptural and others of which are from 16th-century Lutheran writers, including Martin Luther. The work is the first requiem in the German language and was known to Brahms, whose own German Requiem is remarkably similar in content.

The programme also includes Allegri's radiant Miserere mei Deus with its angelic high C, Carissimi's elegant oratorio Jephte, and Monteverdi's Laudate Dominum.

Ealing Choral Society is delighted to welcome soloists from the Choir of the National Musician's Church, Holy Sepulchre to join them for this concert. Peter Asprey conducts.