David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Release Date: 19 April 2024
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060216349145
Genres: Classical Rennaissance
Description
One of the key German composers before Bach with more than 500 surviving individual pieces, Heinrich Schutz wrote mainly church music, and is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the early Baroque. Although he lived most of his long life in Germany, in his twenties Schutz made two visits to Venice. The first was between 1609 and 1613 when he was taught by Giovanni Gabrieli; and the second in the late 1620s to meet and possibly study under Monteverdi. The two trips greatly influenced Schutz's music as he absorbed and began to combine the ornate and theatrical Venetian style with the more understated Lutheran tradition in which he grew up. This album explores his solo cantatas alongside examples of the brilliant and virtuosic Venetian style instrumental music.
"Cavalli's 'O quam suavis' […] charms our senses while the Stabat Mater of Sances is arresting for tis chromaticism over a tetrachord ostinato bass. […] The clearly defined and lively articulation of the Brook Street Band inform the music which irresistible allure." – BBC Music Magazine *****
"Throughout the performances are excellent with David de Winter bringing great style to the music, […] and he is finely partnered by the Brook Street Band. […] A wonderfully engaging and life-affirming disc." – Planet Hugill
"David de Winter well captures and projects the innate character of each one, and the members of The Brook Street Band not only provide solid yet flexible support throughout, but are, on their own, a prime example of how a baroque music ensemble should sound. Elegance and dynamic balance throughout, a lightsome sound and gentle cadence." – Classical Music Sentinel
Tracklisting
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
