Die Vögel unter dem Himmel
Heinrich Schütz - Sacred Choral Music
John Kitchen (solo organ), Edward Batting (organ)
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer
On the whole the choral singing is admirably disciplined and contoured. The most impressive passages tend to be the fullest homophonic sections which close pieces; but "So fahr ich hin zu Jesu...
Die Vögel unter dem Himmel
Heinrich Schütz - Sacred Choral Music
John Kitchen (solo organ), Edward Batting (organ)
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer
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On the whole the choral singing is admirably disciplined and contoured. The most impressive passages tend to be the fullest homophonic sections which close pieces; but "So fahr ich hin zu Jesu...
About
The massed voices of the 140-strong National Youth Choir revel in the magnificently soaring lines of Schütz’s sacred music, complemented by John Kitchen’s contributions on the powerful Rieger organ of St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. Revered by his contemporaries as the ‘Orpheus of our time’, Schütz would never have heard his music performed by forces such as these and on such a scale – surely he would have been a strong advocate of this astounding aural experience. Kitchen’s solo contributions contextualise the choral music with organ works by Samuel Scheidt and other contemporaries of Schütz.
Contents and tracklist
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- John Kitchen (organ)
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
- Edward Batting (organ)
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- Michael Brewer
Awards and reviews
July 2008
On the whole the choral singing is admirably disciplined and contoured. The most impressive passages tend to be the fullest homophonic sections which close pieces; but "So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ" shows that the choir is also adept at music requiring lighter and flexible singing.
choral singing of the very first rank
The Organ
something very, very special … superb music, brilliantly interpreted and well recorded

