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Reviewer: James
A. Altena With the appearance of this disc, volume 11 in the planned complete Heinrich Schütz edition of Carus, all of the composer’s large-scale compositions have been issued in the series except for the Johannespassion and the Schwanengesang. Most of the personnel here are the same as for the Lukaspassion that I reviewed back in 36:6, the major exception being that Georg Poplutz replaces Jan Kobow in the role of the Evangelist. Both tenors are excellent; Kobow has the more conventionally beautiful voice, but Poplutz is the more vivid interpreter. Everyone else also is first-rate, just as before, so I won’t be tedious and needlessly repeat myself on that score. While the extraordinary four-CD set by Paul Hillier and the Ars Nova Copenhagen on Dacapo still remains my touchstone for the major narrative works of Schütz, this series runs an extremely close second to that, and is outstanding in its own right. The Matthäuspassion is preceded here by three briefer works. The Litania, SWV 458, is one of three settings by Schütz of Martin Luther’s Deutsche Litanei of 1529, a revision of the Litany from the Roman Missal which then served in its turn as a basis for the 1544 Litany by Thomas Cranmer that is the oldest liturgical service in the classical Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Its simple petition-and-response structure is of course highly repetitive, but one is rather surprised at the decidedly upbeat tone that Schütz gives it. (The petitions include ones for deliverance “From the Devil’s wiles and crafts,” “From sudden, violent death,” “From pestilence and time of dearth,” etc.) O du allersüßester und liebster Herr Jesu dates from 1646 and appeared in the fourth and final volume of the anthology Geistliche Concerte und Harmonien, published by the Breslau organist and composer Ambrosius Profe (1589–1661). In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr, is an undated piece that survives in incomplete form; the renowned 19th-century musicologist Philipp Spitta, who edited the first modern edition of Schütz’s works, reconstructed the missing alto part. Its simple four-part harmony and strophic structure associate it with the Becker Psalter, which was first published in 1628 but reappeared in a revised and expanded version in 1661. Carus once again provides ideal recorded sound and an excellent booklet with detailed notes, artist bios, and full German-English texts. As with its predecessors, this release warrants an urgent and glowing recommendation for acquisition to every lover of the music of Schütz. In addition to the aforementioned Johannespassion and the Schwanengesang, the major items remaining in the series are Book II of the Kleine geistliche Konzerte, the three sets of the Symphoniae sacrae, and the Becker Psalter, plus numerous individual minor works. Of these major collections, only the Becker Psalter has not previously enjoyed a complete recording, or even anything remotely close to it. It therefore ought to be a priority, but it appears that Carus will most likely save it for the very end. That is not surprising, given first that it consists of relatively simple settings of a complete metrical Psalter suitable for congregational singing that are of lesser musical interest, and second that its contents will occupy several CDs; but for the passionate Schütz devotees such as myself, who long to have every note the master penned, the long wait for its appearance is quite painful. Indeed, I hope I live long enough to see it! | |
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