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The Schütz Season
Cantata Singers pay tribute to musical foundations
David Hoose, musical director of the Cantata Singers
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Boston’s Cantata Singers are dedicated to engaging, entertaining and educating audiences through the musical cantata, a melodic work from the Baroque era usually utilizing a voice or voices, alternating between recitatives and arias. Having developed simultaneously with operas, cantatas can be thought of as unstaged versions of classical music’s most famous vocal tradition. Most noted amongst cantatas is J.S. Bach’s collection of more than 200 a collection the Cantata Singers are dedicated to celebrating.
And so it is with the dedication to Bach that the Cantata Singers have chosen to make the 2009-2010 season the Heinrich Schütz Season. Approaching their 50th year, the Cantata Singers have chosen to explore what led up to the work of their beloved J.S. Bach. Schütz, a predecessor of Bach by more than a century, laid important groundwork for the compositions of Bach. According to David Hoose, musical director for the Cantata Singers and Ensemble, “Just as the world couldn’t get to Bach until it had experienced Schütz, neither can we!”
In keeping with the Cantata Singers’ dedication to highlighting the works of choral masterpieces by composers long-gone in juxtaposition with modern composers creating exciting, new masterworks, the January 15, 2010 performance at Jordan Hall will include works by John Harbison and Maurice Duruflé as well as Heinrich Schütz. Included in the program for the night are Harbison’s “We do not live to ourselves” and “My little children, let us not love in word,” as well as Maurice Duruflé’s “Requiem.” These pieces act as complementary pieces to Schütz’s Psalm 116, “Das ist mir lieb”, a sublime crowd favorite.
For a night of choral music that will satiate everyone from the most discerning classicist to the classical newbie, please visit www.cantatasingers.org to find more about the January 15 concert or to purchase tickets.