Pamela Dellal, mezzo soprano
uncommon intelligence, imagination and textual
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Schütz' setting of "By the Waters of Babylon" is the gravest and most inward of all of Schütz' Psalms of David, published in 1619. the eight-voice setting shows the emotional extremems with which Schütz was working in his adoption of the Gabrieli polychoral style.
©Craig Smith