Harmonia Mundi
Schütz: Kleine geistliche Konzerte
About This Album
Heinrich Schütz is the Rodney Dangerfield among the great masters; despite his enormous output and unchallenged status as the father of the German Baroque, Schütz is truly only popular in German-speaking lands and to a lesser degree in England. Although Schütz's music is recorded with frequency and by ensembles of the highest caliber, the Schütz section in record stores devoted to deep classical catalog is one place where the cobwebs generally gather. It appears that if you like Schütz, you're crazy about him, and if not, there's no middle ground -- you simply don't go there. One longstanding catalog item for Schütz that has enjoyed high critical acclaim and a moderate measure of commercial success is Harmonia Mundi's Heinrich Schütz: Kleine geistliche Konzerte & Symphoniae Sacrae featuring counter tenor René Jacobs, boy soprano Sebastian Hennig and a small, unnamed -- and very good -- chamber group led by William Christie. This disc itself was something of cause celèbre when it first appeared in 1982, and is recognized as one of the first discs to set a new standard in Baroque period performance, and thus, a foundation stone that helped build the house of Harmonia Mundi.
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