Baroque

  Plenty has been written about the complex musical language of the Musikalische Exequien, and its synthesis of disparate contemporary styles into a unified musical whole. But what makes the piece uniquely fascinating is its intensely personal aspect, and this goes above and beyond merely Prince Heinrich’s textual influence. Schütz Read more…

In a few weeks’ time, we’re going to be performing one of the most important sacred works of the early German Baroque: Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien (“Funeral Music”), widely considered to be the first “German Requiem”. Over three tightly constructed movements with about half an hour’s music between them, it Read more…