Word: schutz
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...concert will close with Psalm 84, "Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen," by Heinrich Schutz...
...works contain such diversity in their original settings and simple length that an evening of varied chunks and snippets, and Etcetera concert, very easily comes apart at the seams. This concert did not, for the predominance of sacred works accentuated the contrasts among them, and an excellent performance of Schutz's Musicalische Exequien capped the evening off well...
...triumph of the evening was the Schutz work, a Requiem in German built on chorales and biblical verses. The piece's lines have exceedingly involved rhythms which continually vary and oppose each other, and Forbes caught these subtleties brilliantly. The voices did not sit upon each accent, but flowed or lilted in accord with the word's rhythm and meaning. The chorus's force gave the chorales the body which the Lassus lacked...
...perform and direct performances. She became known in England through several concerts at Queen's Hall and Wigmore Hall, and broadcasts of old and new French music from London. In 1936, with her own singers from Paris, she gave the first public performance in London of one of Schutz's Passions and Faure's Requiem. The next year she became the first woman to conduct a whole program of the Royal Phil-harmonic Society...
There was a time when it was fairly recherche to show interest in Schutz or Gallus, but that day has past, Sunday evening, a capacity audience lined up an hour in advance for tickets to a performance of liturgical music by Josquin des Prez, Buchner, and other Fifteenth and Sixteenth century composers. And this was no historical experiment, but a mature, indeed exalted, presentation...