Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble: Schütz - Attendite, popule meus

Heinrich Schütz - Attendite, popule meus (SWV 270; Symphoniae Sacrae I, 1629)
Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble
(Period Instrument Group)
Michael Holmes, director
David Brundage, bass soloist

Original Latin text:

(Psalm 78; Maschil of Asaph)
Attendite, popule meus,
legem meam, inclinate aurem vestram in verba oris mei.
Aperiam in parabolis os meum,
loquar propositiones ab inintio.
Quanta audivimus et cogno vimus ea, et patres nostri narraverunt nobis.

English translation:

Hear my law, O my people;
incline your ears unto the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will declare hard sentences of old;
Which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us.

About the group:

Fast becoming the premiere ensemble of its kind in North America, the Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, directed by Michael Holmes, consists of early brass specialists from the Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City areas. The WCSE's membership has modified and grown considerably since its inception in 1997. It has performed extensively and has been in high demand all along the east coast USA, collaborating in adventuresome programs with prominent period ensembles such as Lumen Valo (Finland), New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), Sacra Fuma (Princeton), the Orchestra of the 17th Century (D.C.), the Washington Bach Consort (D.C.), Carmina (D.C.), Cantate Chamber Singers (D.C.), the Washington Kantorei (D.C.), and Zephyrus (Charlottesville). Its repertoire has been vast, exploring almost every possible style and region, including music from Germany, Italy, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Scandinavia, Spain, England and the New World. In the summer of 2001, WCSE produced its first recording of music by Gabrieli and Schütz. In August 2003, WCSE was invited to be the featured ensemble at the Historic Brass Society Festival at Yale University (New Haven, CT), and were invited to return for the next annual festival concurrent with the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College. WCSE was featured in the 2004 CD recording "Mass in Honor of the Immaculate Conception" in music by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Marenzio, and Ugolini, in collaboration with the choir of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. Another WCSE recording of a canzona by Claudio Merulo circulated to numerous North American universities in 2005 as part of the anthology for Craig Wright and Brian Simms's new music history textbook "Music in Western Civilization."
Contact: holmesms@msn.com
URLs: http://youtube.com/group/wcse http://www.myspace.com/wcse

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• baroque
• Washington
• Cornett
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• Sackbutt
• Ensemble
• Schütz
• Attendite
• popule
• meus
• Michael
• Holmes

[msholmes]

Please rate and comment. Thank you!

[welingtonmatias]

Very beautiful music, the sounds of the instruments and the video too! Thanks!

[valvetrom]

I love this old style music, I would record the brass with micro closer

[zuantuba]

wonderful

[KarlAmade]

Very well : )

The only thing that I wish was done better was to drop the singer's vibrato, he sings in Wagner style, and vibrato was only an ornament back then.

[indoctus41]

aelfricbetera:

This is terrific and very well recorded and performed. Schutz is underrated.

[aelfricbetera]

splendid Schutz...brass ensemble is most excellent...

[MaBu888]

Watch these vowels! That's better.