Composers: Schütz
Compositions: Madrigals
Performers: Dresdner Kammerchor/Rademann
Catalogue Number: Carus CARUS83277
Carus has taken on the admirable, if Herculean task of recording all of Heinrich Schütz’s extant music. This disc of German-texted madrigals and wedding music is the 19th in the series. A nicely varied selection of 15 pieces, it explores Schütz’s more youthful, intimate and domestic side, but echoes of the elegant and opulent Venetian style that so influenced him can be heard throughout. Another hallmark of Venetian sensibility is a penchant for setting texts inspired by The Song of Songs,...
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