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This is the last of four CDs on Dacapo by Ars Nova Copenhagen under Paul Hillier devoted to the 'narrative' choral works of Heinrich Schütz. Schütz's setting of St Matthew - or to give it his full title, Das Leiden unsers Herren Jesu Christi, wie es beschreibet der heilige Evangeliste Matthaeus - is never going to have the same broad appeal as Bach's. For all his Lutheranism, Bach's music, partly as a product of his times, was much less austere than that of Schütz. 
The recording is almost superb - the nowadays ubiquitous rumble of road traffic only occasionally and very faintly intrudes upon the beautiful voices of Ars Nova Copenhagen floating in the lovely acoustic of the Garnison Church. 
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