Schütz, Schein, & Scheidt

Heinrich Schütz is considered by many the greatest German composer of the 17th century. Along with Michael Prætorius, Schütz and his colleagues Johann Hermann Schein and Samuel Scheidt revolutionized German church music, introducing the colorful, emotionally expressive Italian style of Gabrieli and Monteverdi and adapting it to the vernacular, chorale-based Lutheran liturgy. Our concert presented a program of motets and psalm settings by these three great early chapelmasters, including works for both large choir and chamber ensemble, and featuring both a cappella and concerted works with baroque strings and continuo.