Cantata Singers Explores Heinrich Schütz Through Works of Monteverdi, Stravinsky, and Poulenc March 12, 2010

Cantata Singers, one of the nation’s leading ensembles dedicated to performing and commissioning choral-orchestral works, presents the third program of its Schütz-centric season on Friday, March 12th at 8:00pm in Boston’s Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street). Recent seasons have focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Benjamin Britten, and the organization’s approaching 50th year will focus on the large choral works of J.S. Bach. In this season’s latest homage to 17th-century German master Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), Cantata Singers showcases motets from his Cantiones sacrae (1625) and Symphoniae sacrae III (1650), along with deeply connected–and dramatically contrasting–works of Claudio Monteverdi - Laetatus sum (1640) and Gloria a 7 voci (1631), Igor Stravinsky - Mass (1948), and Francis Poulenc- Mass in G (1937).

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