Florian Helgath, Ruhr ChorWerk - Heinrich Schütz Musikalische Exequien & Nikolaus Brass Voices (2022) [24/96]

The encounter of different epochs is often the decisive moment of tension in music programmes. Chorwerk Ruhr chooses a particularly original path in its latest prank: a central work by Heinrich Schütz is juxtaposed with what Nikolaus Brass, born in 1949, develops from his encounter with the work of arguably the greatest German vocal composer of the early Baroque. Schütz's Musikalische Exequien, a three-part funeral music with German text from 1637, vividly depicts suffering and death, but in accordance with Christian doctrine also gives great space to the certainty of salvation. Nikolaus Brass, as he says, conscious of this certainty, interrogates the music of his revered colleague and responds partly with almost verbatim quotations, partly with strongly contrasting passages from his works Voices 1 and Voices 2. In this new production, these two frame the Exequien as a large central work, again framed by two Schütz mottoes, so that a symmetrical overall arrangement is formed.

TRACKLIST

01. Ruhr ChorWerk - Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren, SWV 432
02. Ruhr ChorWerk - Earth Diver: I, Voices I
03. Ruhr ChorWerk - Musikalische Exequien, Op. 7, SWV 279: I. Teil I. Konzert in Form einer deutschen Begräbnis-Missa. Nacket bin ich von Mutterleibe kommen
04. Ruhr ChorWerk - Musikalische Exequien, Op. 7: III. Teil I. Konzert in Form einer deutschen Begräbnis-Missa. Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
05. Ruhr ChorWerk - Musikalische Exequien, Op. 7: III. Teil II. Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe
06. Ruhr ChorWerk - Musikalische Exequien, Op. 7, SWV 281: IV. Teil III. Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren
07. Ruhr ChorWerk - Earth Diver: Voices II
08. Ruhr ChorWerk - Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391



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