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Founded fifty years ago and directed by Joël Suhubiette for the last twenty years, the Ensemble Jacques Moderne - composed of a vocal and instrumental ensemble and enriched by musicological research - performs two centuries of ancient European music, from Renaissance polyphony to Baroque vocal music.

HEINRICH SCHÜTZ : THE DRESDEN ORPHEUS

Geistliche chormusik - Kleine geistliche konzerte
Heinrich Schütz
12 singers
3 musicians (viola da gamba, theorbo, positive organ)
Joël Suhubiette, conductor
Published 05/02/2020

Heinrich Schütz is considered as an essential figure of the early Baroque in Germany, and one of the most prestigious predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach. Strongly influenced by his trips to Venice, his compositions show a magnificent communion between Lutheran tradition and Italian influence, creating an innovative, solar, humanist and emotionally intense music.

Heading the Ensemble Jacques Moderne, Joël Suhubiette performs some of the most beautiful sacred works by the Chapel Master of Dresden, hand-picked within 2 of his essential opuses. Kleine geistliche Konzerte (1636-39) deliver intimate duos and trios; Geistliche chormusik (1648) personify, through the splendor of Schütz’ polyphonic composition, a secular question: how to conciliate the old and the new. In this aspect, it is one of Schütz’ most important works.

 

  

 

 

 

 

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Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

 
Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11 (Dresden, 1648)
Herr, auf dich traue ich, SWV 377
So fahr ich bin zu Jesu Christ, SWV 379
O lieber Herre Gott, SWV 381
Die mit Tränen säen, SWV 378
 
 
Kleine geistliche Konzerte I, Op. 8 (Leipzig, 1636)
O hilf, Christe Gottes Sohn, SWV 295
O Herr hilf, SWV 297
Erhöre mich, wenn ich rufe, SWV 289
Ihr Heiligen, lobsinget dem Herren, SWV 288
 
 
Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11 (Dresden, 1648)
Ich bin eine rufende Stimme, SWV 383
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386
 
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Kleine geistliche Konzerte II, Op. 9 (Leipzig, 1639)
Herr, wenn ich nur dich, SWV 321
Allein Gott in der Höh, SWV 327
Ist Gott für uns, SWV 329
Was betrübst du dich, meine Seele, SWV 335
 
 
Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11 (Dresden, 1648)
Das ist ja gewißlich wahr, SWV 388
Unser Wandel ist im Himmel, SWV 390
Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391