Before commenting on the music on this disc, I should probably point out an embarrassing error of translation in the accompanying notes that causes booklet author Jerome Roche completely to misunderstand and misinterpret one of Praetorius's spiritual motets. The German text of the first verse of Track 11 is, "Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort /und steur des Babsts und Türken Mord,/die Jesum Christum, deinen Sohn,/stürzen wollen von seinem Thron." Whoever translated this into English made a complete hash of it with following rendering: "Uphold us Lord in Your Word, and let the Pope and Turks be murdered for casting down Jesus Christ, Your Son, from His throne." But anyone familiar with both seventeenth-century German and Lutheran Church history will see that the correct translation should be, "Uphold us Lord in Your Word, and thwart the murderous plans [or, Stop the murderous attacks] of the Pope and the Turks who are attempting to cast down Jesus Christ, Your Son, from His throne." The German verb "steuern" used to mean to thwart or to hinder; and the noun Mord is still today not used with a genitive of the person to be murdered but of the person committing the murder.