My Heart’s Comfort

Masters of German Baroque

Saturday 31 October 2026 at 3.00 pm
All Saints, Weston

Tickets
£20 (£16 in advance)
£5 for ages 18 to 30 (photo ID / proof of age to be shown on entry)
Free for under 18s

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✆ 020 8399 2714
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How often do we turn to music to provide comfort in the depths of grief? When we need reassurance, music consoles. When we need hope, music revives. Music helps us acknowledge our sorrow, and bring joy back to our lives. In My Heart’s Comfort, The Ripieno Choir, enriched by cello and organ, returns to the masterful talents of the Bach family and Schütz to explore the comfort of music in the face of mortality.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu, Meine Freude takes us on a musical journey through images of shelter, storm and fear towards a growing inner strength and resilience. Johann Christoph Bach uses subtly changing harmonies in Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben to give the gentle melody a direction towards release. Finally, Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien paints comfort as shelter and belonging in both the earthly community and heavenly company. He combines the intimacy of smaller ensembles with the warmth of the full choir, to create an ambience that glows with expressions of light, life and joy.

Join us for a concert of sublime German Baroque music, of striking contrasts and powerful emotions, of intimate reflection and joyful affirmation.

Repertoire

• • Johann Sebastian Bach Jesu, Meine Freude
  • Schütz Musikalische Exequien
  • Johann Christoph Bach Es ist nun aus mit meinem Leben

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