Pamela Dellal, mezzo soprano
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Motet Notes
Heinrich Schütz: "Hütet euch," SWV 413 - Symphoniae Sacrae III
Most of the music written for the last Sundays before Advent have a heavy Eschatological slant. "Hütet euch" from the Third Book of Sacred Symphonies by Schütz takes its text of dire warning from the Twenty-first chapter of Luke. It tells of the dangers of debauchery, that one must stand with the Saviour against the pleasures of the world. Unlike the sometimes self-righteous quality of some of the Epistle readings of this type, the Gospel passage is hair-raisingly direct. Schütz has set the passage with intensity and his usual marvelous specificity.
©Craig Smith