Schutz: Geistliche Chor-Music 1648

Heinrich Schutz (Artist), Weser-Renaissance Bremen (Artist), Manfred Cordes (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Cpo Records
• ASIN: B00000AEON
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: The Heavens Are Telling

2. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: I Am The Voice

3. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: Comfort, Comfort My People

4. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: O Dear Lord God

5. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: Look At The Fig Tree

6. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: The Sceptre Shall Not Depart From Judah/He Washes His...

7. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: For Us A Child Is Born

8. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: For The Grace Of God

9. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: The Angel Said

10. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: And The Word Became Flesh

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Disc: 2

1. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: For God So Loved The World

2. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: Whatever My God Wills

3. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: You Wicked Servant

4. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: Dearly Do I Love You, O Lord

5. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: And So I Go

6. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: May Those Who Saw In Tears

7. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: None of Us Lives To Himself

8. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: But Our Commonwealth

9. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: Blessed Are The Dead

10. Sacred Chor Music 1648 Op.11 SWV 369-397: Grand Us Peace

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Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful, January 12, 1999

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This review is from: Schutz: Geistliche Chor-Music 1648 (Audio CD)

This set is a wonderful new view of this timeless classic. The Ehmann set on Cantate, re-released a few years ago, remains an excellent version, but this new recording, also including the never recorded Litania and the rarely heard Grossman setting of Psalm 116 from 1621, is beautifully done, with bright, clean sonics. Highly recommended, for anyone who likes this type of music. For those who don't know this collection, it is Schutz's own choice for a sort of summa of his career... he chose concertos for the 1647 and 1650 Symphoniae sacrae, and this set is his 'last word' on the traditional (by then old-fashioned) motet. The main distinction is that the motets do not rely on a general bass or continuo. Some of his best known works, such as Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt and Das ist je gewisslich wahr are in this set, but there are many other rarely heard items, all of them top notch.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely Not First Choice, March 16, 2008

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This review is from: Schutz: Geistliche Chor-Music 1648 (Audio CD)

This is a respectable choral performance of sumptuous polyphony in the "old-practice" late Renaissance style, without continuo and with all five to seven voices equally conceived. It's very great music, in my huuummmble opinion, but this presentation doesn't do it full justice. The chorus is too broad in timbre; nuances of harmony and articulation are obscured. There is a far better performance available of the Geistliche Chormusik by the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, which costs twice as much but is musically worth at least three times as much.