David de Winter & The Brook Street Band - Schütz: A German in Venice (2024)

One of the key German composers before Bach with more than 500 surviving individual pieces, Heinrich Schutz wrote mainly church music, and is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the early Baroque. Although he lived most of his long life in Germany, in his twenties Schutz made two visits to Venice. The first was between 1609 and 1613 when he was taught by Giovanni Gabrieli; and the second in the late 1620s to meet and possibly study under Monteverdi. The two trips greatly influenced Schutz's music as he absorbed and began to combine the ornate and theatrical Venetian style with the more understated Lutheran tradition in which he grew up. This album explores his solo cantatas alongside examples of the brilliant and virtuosic Venetian style instrumental music.

Tracklist
01. Symphoniae sacrae II, Op. 10: No. 10, Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum, SWV 350
02. Messa, salmi concertati e parte da capella, et letanie della B. V.: No. 4, Confitebor tibi domine, SV 265
03. Kleine geistliche Konzerte I, Op. 8: No. 4, O süßer, O freundlicher, SWV 285
04. Varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi, e corrente, Book 3, Op. 12: Sonata quarta sopra l'arie di Ruggiero
05. Symphoniae sacrae I, Op. 6: No. 2, Exultavit cor meum in Domino, SWV 258
06. Stabat Mater
07. Symphoniae sacrae I, Op. 6: No. 1, Paratum cor meum, Deus, SWV 257
08. Lauda Sion Salvatorem
09. Symphoniae sacrae II, Op. 10: No. 6, Ich werde nicht sterben, SWV 346
10. Sonata ottava sopra l'aria è tanto tempo hormai
11. Symphoniae sacrae I, Op. 6: No. 4, Cantabo domino in vita mea, SWV 260
12. O quam suavis est
13. Symphoniae sacrae II, Op. 10: No. 3, Herr, unser Herrscher, wie herrlich ist dein Nam, SWV 343
14. Decantabat populus Israel
15. Symphoniae sacrae II, Op. 10: No. 7, Ich danke dir, Herr, von ganzem Herzen, SWV 347