We close the season with Schütz’s culminating work, his deeply felt reflection on a very full and rich eighty-six years. Nothing small, efficient or inward, but rather a swansong of monumental scope and imagination – two four-voice choruses, instruments and continuo, in thirteen motets filling a full, concentrated evening. The Schwanengesang burns with youthful vigor, incredible invention, and thrillingly refined drama. There is no evidence that Schütz himself ever heard a performance of this work, but Cantata Singers offers you a very, very rare opportunity to experience this artist’s final, brilliant reflection on life, in its glorious, astounding whole.

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