Heinrich schütz - In lectulo per noctes

Barbara Borden, Rogers Covey - Concerto Palatino

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• heinrich
• schutz
• motet
• sacred
• music
• baroque

[usignolo1982]

Never heard before this awesome Schütz piece! Thank you very much for posting it. I have two questions: 1) Which collection of Schütz pieces is this in (is a sinfonia sacra)?2) Are the instruments dulcians?

[peipuss]

Thanks. This piece is from Symphoniae Sacrae I (1629); as for the instruments, I'm not 100% sure but I think they are sackbuts ( a sort of ancient trombone).

[pcerasi]

No, these are dulcians (early bassoons)! Other recordings have this piece played on sackbuts, which works also very well.

[peipuss]

Thanks for the clarification :)

[pcerasi]

@jameslouder No, quite sure it is here played by 4 dulcians, but the organ playing the basso continuo doubles some of the voices giving them more ample sound. Although sackuts tend to be weaker than modern trombones, they still do sound like brass instruments, without this wonderful nasal quality of the double reed bassoons. Also, the slide action give them a very distinct articulation.

[jameslouder]

@pcerasi There is a dulcian in there, but the inner voices are carried by sackbuts.

[jameslouder]

@peipuss  Yes, they are indeed sackbuts. And yes, again, the sackbut is the ancestor of the modern trombone. The instruments were available in the alto, tenor, bass, and double-bass ranges. The soprano and discant parts in such ensembles were carried either by the shawn (a predecessor of the oboe) or by the cornetto, a woodwind with a cupped-bell mouthpiece.

[oldionus]

Wonderful to hear Schutz vocal pieces like this posted here. Thank you.

[molealto]

That's Rogers Covey-Crump, bless him...

[Trumscheit]

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