Musikalische Exequien, Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz

Album by Heinrich Schütz & Dresdner Kreuzchor & Rudolf Mauersberger

Musikalische Exequien, Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz is an album of sacred vocal works by German composer Heinrich Schütz, composed and first published in the mid-17th century (Musikalische Exequien in 1636 and Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz c.1645). Musically they exemplify early German Baroque sacred style, combining polyphonic choral writing with intimate solo and small-ensemble passages and expressive rhetorical text‑setting, and they occupy a central place in Schütz's output as liturgical compositions that helped shape Protestant German sacred music.

Musikalische Exequien, Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz by Heinrich Schütz - album cover

First released: 1996

Baroque Classical

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1.
Concert in Form einer teutschen Begräbnis-Missa, SWV 279
27:36
2.
Motette "Herr, wenn ich nur Dich habe", SWV 280
3:15
3.
Canticum B. Simeonis "Herr, nun lässest Du Deinen Diener in Frieden fahren", SWV 281
4:58
4.
Die sieben Worte unsers lieben Erlösers und Seeligmachers Jesu Christi am Kreuz, SWV 478
22:06