Volume 20 comprises nine psalm settings in addition to ten miscellaneous vocal works, all of which sustain the high musical standards of previous volumes. It makes a fitting conclusion to the entire series and this comprehensive survey of 17th-century Germany’s most significant composer.

arguably the finest in the entire series issued by Carus...an indispensible, immediately necessary acquisition for every lover of Schütz’s music.

Rademann’s forces bring all the warmth and soft, grainy bloom we’ve come to expect through this series to the larger-scale works, as well as a rhythmic and expressive lightness that helps give clarity right through some very dense vertical textures…It’s a splendid end to Rademann’s labour of love, and those final personal works offer a lovely parting glimpse of the private man behind so much public spectacle.