Organ Recital

Fulham Holy Week Festival

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International concert organists and competition laureate Jeremiah Stephenson shares a recital for Maundy Thursday, showcasing the full emotional palette of the four manual Harrison and Harrison organ at All Saints Margaret Street. The programme traces out themes of penitence, exile, struggle, death and hope of new life through repertoire spanning three centuries. All of these themes come together with cataclysmic intensity in the second of the Trois Chorals by César Franck, one of the cornerstones of French Romantic organ repertoire. This sits alongside penitential choral settings of Bach which look back over Lent, Messiaen’s highly programmatic depiction of the Crucifixion and Resurrection from La Nativité du Seigneur and other works by de Grigny and Dupré.

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The Fulham Holy Week Festival of Music and Liturgy celebrates the union of music and liturgy within Holy Week. The festi...val serves both the congregations within the See of Fulham and also shows the marriage of music and religion to the rest of the world.

The Holy Week Festival of Music and Liturgy charts the dramatic events of Christ's trial and Passion through art, word and music. Set in some of London's most iconic Anglo-Catholic buildings, musicians from across the See of Fulham come together to provide concerts and liturgies that would otherwise be lacking this year owing to the restrictions resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

Audiences can experience every moment of this heart-wrenching story, through the emotional twists of betrayal and loss, pain and suffering, triumph and victory, all from the comfort of their own homes.

The week begins with a service of Compline. This ancient office of the Church has a beautiful, meditative rhythm and is chanted here by the Schola Cantorum of St Matthew's, Kensington Olympia. Later in the week St Augustine's Voices and the Bishop of Fulham present a version of Tenebrae (meaning darkness), a service traditionally held after dark in the final days of Holy Week. Characterized by the gradual extinguishing of candles and the 'strepitus' (or loud noise), this dramatic liturgy drives home the powerful Christian symbolism of darkness and light.

There are concerts and recitals to enjoy, each adding their own musical flavour to the week's events, before our story reaches the agony of the cross on Good Friday. Join the Parish Choir of St Gabriel's, Pimlico as they chart Christ's final moments through the music of John Stainer's much loved oratorio, 'The Cruxifixion'. Our inaugural Holy Week Festival is brought to a close with The Erebus Ensemble and a reflective programme featuring Jean Richafort's sublime Requiem and Sir James MacMillan's thrilling setting of psalm 51, Miserere mei Deus.
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