Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan - Heinrich Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik (1997)
Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan - Heinrich Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 531 Mb | Total time: 121:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-831 CD | Recorded: 1997
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 531 Mb | Total time: 121:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-831 CD | Recorded: 1997
By 1648, Heinrich Schuetz was both a survivor and a relic of his own past glory. The 63-year-old devout Lutheran had survived the religious slaughter of the Thirty Years War, which had killed more than half of the musicians of his German world. Surely the most influential composer of German history, he had also outlasted his own impact on the next generation of German composers, patrons, and audiences, who unjustly regarded his music as outdated. Who knows how he felt about his growing isolation, but it's interesting that he chose to compose one of his grandest and greatest accomplishments - the Geistliche Chormusik 1648, op. 11 - in the antiquated contrapuntal style of Renaissance vocal polyphony, the prima prattica, rather than the operatic Italianate seconda prattica he himself had introduced to German music. (The most obvious difference a modern listener might hear will be the absence of basso continuo, that is, of a chordal structure based on a bass.) In a sense, Schuetz was relinquishing the primacy of words over music, setting the familiar psalm texts to complexly intellectual counterpoint and letting the music convey the meaning. Schuetz's situation as the revered but no longer heard Master of the Chapel in Dresden oddly prefigures that of JS Bach, whose magnificently intellectual music was neglected by his own sons and pupils.
The motets of the "Spiritual Choir Music" are essentially a capella, though trombones and bassoons might serve in a few. Despite his re-commitment to prima prattica, Schuetz managed to blend his superb sense of musical drama into his dense counterpoint, relying on much shorter phrases and much more operatic sectional contrasts than the polyphony of the great Flemish masters of the 16th Century.
This music requires a conductor with a strong sense of theater. Such a conductor is Masaaki Suzuki, best known for his vigorous direction of the JS Bach cantatas. Susuki is not hesitant about using the full dynamic range of his choir, or about setting tempi from adagio to presto. Even the great Philippe Herreweghe seems timid by comparison, on his Harmonia Mundi CD of the Geistliche Chormusik. It seems obvious that Schuetz never foresaw the birth of recording and never supposed that all the motets of his Opus 11 would be sung as a unitary composition. Alas, timid conducting and unresponsive choirs can make these motets sound "all the same." Suzuki uniquely overcomes this uniformity, establishing the special emotional tenor of each motet from the first bar on.
The Bach Collegium Japan is a splendid instrument for a conductor like Suzuki - pitch perfect and disciplined to respond to his baton. Their sound is full and warm, with a choral resonance that suits these motets like a musical glove. There are at least four other CDs available of the Geistliche Chormusik, but this one is easily the best of the bunch.
Performer:
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Tracklist:
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV 369-397
01. 1. Es wird das Szepter von Juda nicht entwendet werden
02. 2. Er wird sein Kleid in Wein waschen
03. 3. Es ist erschienen die heilsame Gnade Gottes
04. 4. Verleih uns Frieden genädiglich
05. 5. Gib unsern Fürsten und aller Obrigkeit Fried und gut Regiment
06. 6. Unser keiner lebet ihm selber
07. 7. Viel werden kommen von Morgen und von Abend
08. 8. Sammlet zuvor das Unkraut
09. 9. Herr, auf dich traue ich
10. 10. Die mit Tränen säen
11. 11. So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ
12. 12. Aria
13. 13. O lieber Herre Gott, wecke uns auf
14. 14. Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk
15. 15. Ich bin eine rufende Stimme
16. 16. Ein Kind ist uns geboren
17. 17. Das Wort ward Fleisch
18. 18. Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes
19. 19. Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr
20. 20. Das ist je gewisslich wahr und ein teuer wertes Wort
CD2:
01. 21. Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock
02. 22. Unser Wandel ist im Himmel
03. 23. Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herren sterben
04. 24. Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit
05. 25. Ich weiss, dass main Erlöser lebt
06. 26. Sehet an den Feigenbaum und alle Bäume
07. 27. Der Engel sprach zu den Hirten
08. 28. Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehört
09. 29. Du Schalksknecht, alle diese Schuld habe ich dir erlassen
10. Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz, SWV 478
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Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan - Heinrich Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik (1997)
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