Schütz: Schwanengesang SWV 482-494 – Philippe Herreweghe

Choir & Organ (Jan, 2018)
Schütz’s creative life closed with his ‘Schwanengesang’, the Opus Ultimum, 11 double-choir works including the complete setting of Psalm 119. This double-CD from Collegium Vocale Ghent and Concerto Palatino enthrals, with superb interpretations and glorious depths of sound from choir and instruments in a wondrously lively recording. Subtle, profound, utterly energised, Philippe Herreweghe’s intricately detailed direction, enabled by a brilliant team, is in a league apart. …