COMPOSERS: Schutz
LABELS: Harmonia Mundi
WORKS: Musikalisches Exequien
PERFORMER: La Chapelle Royale/Philippe Herreweghe
CATALOGUE NO: HMG 501261
From early-Baroque Germany no more heart-felt funeral meditation exists than Schütz’s Exequien, supplemented here by six exquisite motets. This superb chamber-scale performance still merits the accolades showered on it over 20 years ago. George Pratt