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Rather lovely

Steven Guy | Croydon, South Australia | 03/01/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"All lovers of Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hermann Schein and, of course, Samuel Scheidt, should seriously consider buying this beautiful recording of Scheidt's consort music. Yes, it is a rather "stringy" version of his music and it was probably intended for cornetts and sackbuts, well, at least, much of it sounds like that, but I am also a lover of the viola da gamba, which I do NOT play! [I'm a cornett man, myself]



Any increase in the amount of Samuel Scheidt's music available on CD just has to be a good thing. We've read about this composer. Know that he was a close contemporary of Schütz and Schein. We know that he was and is regarded as an important, if not great, composer. Yet how much of his music to we actually hear these days? Not a lot, unfortunately.



Samuel Scheidt wrote a lot of consort music for strings, cornetts and sackbuts, alas, much of it is now lost! :-(



However, the Ludi Musici of 1621 has survived and it is great to be able to hear it.



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