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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...

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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

Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnunge, SWV 29 "Psalm 84"
Track length7:36
No. 25, Ich weiß, daß mein Erlöser lebt, SWV 393
Track length2:36
Ein Kindelein so löbelich, SSWV 448
Track length3:28
No. 18, Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386
Track length4:29
No. 11, So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ, SWV 379
Track length2:43
Da Jesus am dem Kreuze stund, SSWV 453
Track length2:16
No. 10, Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten, SWV 378
Track length3:26
Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir, SWV 25 "Psalm 130"
Track length4:22
Herr, unser Herrscher, SWV 27 "Psalm 8"
Track length4:37
Cantate Domino canticum novum, SWV 81
Track length3:21
Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 494 "Deutsches Magnificat"
Track length7:37
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, SSWV 496
Track length2:53
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, SWV 35 "Psalm 98"
Track length5:31
Alleluja, lobet den Herren, SWV 38 "Psalm 150"
Track length9:38

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
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