This concert presents Heinrich Schütz’s St. Matthew Passion in a newly commissioned English translation by musicologist and Baroque specialist Chester Alwes. Written late in Schütz’s life amid the devastation of the Thirty Years’ War, the work’s striking austerity reflects a world marked by loss, scarcity, and moral exhaustion, where meaning is carried by words rather than spectacle. Sung without instruments and shaped by clarity of text, the Passion offers a restrained yet deeply ... view more »
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