Eras­mus sounds! - Set 1: Grant us peace

Music for the Peace of Westphalia in 1648: simple, cheerful, but also bitter music with the beguiling motet “Grant us peace” at its centre, presented by the leading Schütz interpreters of our time.

Soloists
Dresden Chamber Choir
Hans-Christoph Rademann
Alain Claude Sulzer, reading
Concert program:
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654): Galliard battaglia à 5 SSWV 59
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): Haste, save me, God, SWV 282
Heinrich Schütz: Lord our ruler (Psalm 8) SWV 449
Heinrich Schütz: Syncharma Musicum SWV 49
for the homage of the Silesian estates in 1621 in Breslau
Heinrich Schütz: Let God rise SWV 356
Heinrich Schütz: Teutoniam dudum belli SWV 338
for the homage of the Silesian estates in 1621 in Breslau
Heinrich Schütz: Zion says, the Lord has leave me SWV 46

Heinrich Schütz: Grant us peace / Give to our princes SWV 372/373

Philipp F. Böddecker (1607-1683): Melos Irenicum »Te Deum laudamus«
presumably for the Peace Festival in Strasbourg 1655

Heinrich Schütz: Now thank all God SWV 418
for the Peace Festival on July 22nd 1650 in Dresden