Heinrich Schütz: Psalmen Davids n. 150 "Alleluja! Lobet den Herrn"

[macdonald59]

Splendido!

[clemenskreiss]

Lobet den Herrn - und nicht: hetzet durch die Noten... kein Gefühl für Schütz

[bonnibox]

The tempi are wrong and the singers are not good. The conductor has no sense for the music of Heinrich Schütz.

[baxter5431]

This is the kind of music that if returned to the "modern" liturgy, would bring people back in droves. Modern church liturgy is so banal and it's performed by those whose highest level of musical ability is mediocre. That's one of the two reasons why I stopped attending church 20 years ago. Bad "music" poorly performed and too much politics in the pulpit.

[shadowblue746]

Superb and thank you for all this wonderful music

[AnnaN21210]

Great ensemble, great music, the best interpretation I have heard so far. However, I don't know the 70's versions by the Regensburger Domspatzen. I tend to characterize the emotions more as intense or passionate as opposed to angry. Is there a CD of the recordings available?

[fz1844]

Not bad, although I thought Schutz himself had a few words to say about not performing his pieces too fast (so that the words couldn't be understood and expressed well). Also, I think they need some larger choral backup for the exclamatory parts. In this respect, I still haven't heard many recordings that come close to the early 70's versions of the Psalmen Davids by the Regensburger Domspatzen.

[EvelynCor]

This is so amazing. It's one of the few "angry" Alleluias. I don't know how to put it otherwise - it sounds like someone being angry for God to receive "Alleluia" - it is so expressive, loud, big =) Faithful and honest in its own right. Schütz as he should be.