Dresdner Kreuzchor – Schütz: Musikalische Exequien (1970/2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Dresdner Kreuzchor – Schütz: Musikalische Exequien (1970/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:39 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Exequien were written for the burial service of Prince Heinrich Posthumus von Reuss, a nobleman whom Schütz had probably counted as a friend from 1616 or 1617. Although the music was commissioned by Posthumus’ widow and sons after his death in December of 1635, it had been planned in some detail by Heinrich Posthumus himself well before his death. His will specifies the texts to be set and the character of the music to be used in setting them, as well as the decorations on his coffin and the positioning of the attendants and participants in the service.

Such a degree of concern with the formal presentation of one’s own death may strike us as odd, maybe a trifle obsessive. It can be hard for us, creatures of an age in which death is generally treated as an inexplicable dispersal of meaning, a kind of obscenity, to fathom the importance it held to a 17th-century Lutheran mind. Death was an answer, a resolution, a reward. Peace could finally arrive with death. It was the central event of a righteous life—clearly, personally, and achingly longed for.

Tracklist:

1-1. Rudolf Mauersberger – Musikalische Exequien: Concert in Form einer teutschen Begräbnis-Missa, SWV 279 (Remastered) (27:34)
1-2. Dresdner Kreuzchor – Musikalische Exequien: Motette “Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe”, SWV 280 (Remastered) (03:15)
1-3. Dresdner Kreuzchor – Musikalische Exequien: Canticum B. Simeonis “Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren”, SWV 281 (Remastered) (04:49)

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