Schutz;musikalische Exequien
CD
RRP £20.30 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Schutz, H.
- Label
- Carus
- Barcode
- 4009350832381
Product description SA Review '…this much recorded work (Musicalische Exequien) receives as fine an interpretation as I can recall, thanks in no small measure to a cast of distinguished and sympathetic singers… Rademann's ensemble also achieves something rather special… A very fine continuation to an impressive series.' --Gramophone, May 2012 The Dresdner Kammerchor's admirable project to record the complete works of Schütz (they should be finished in 2017) continues with this disc of his funeral music. It includes what must be his most famous work, the Musikalische Exequien. This was written in 1636 for the funeral of a Saxon Count and it sets texts, from the Bible and from religious writers such as Luther. The deceased had arranged to have these engraved on his copper coffin, a picture of which is reproduced in the CD booklet. Schütz produced a compendium of the religious styles of his time in the 23-minute long opening section, sung with precision and beauty by the Dresdners. However, the choir are even finer in the subsequent two sections which meditate on the destiny of the righteous. The final movement sets the German text of the Nunc Dimittis as a solemn chorale, while a group of soloists offsets it by singing Blessed are the dead from the Book of Revelation. Here, as throughout the disc, the choir s expertise with this style is self-evident and the Radeberg church acoustic serves the music like a tailor-made suit. It is expertly captured by the Carus engineers. Fine a
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