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Donald Macleod explores the life and music of German early Baroque master Heinrich Schütz. Today he dips a toe into the fertile archival territory of Schütz’s own writings.

Unlike many composers from the earlier end of music history, Heinrich Schütz left plenty of documentary traces – letters, petitions, memoranda, appraisals, prefaces, poetry and, in tune with the patronage culture of the times, his fair share of fawning dedications. It’s a body of writings that opens fascinating windows onto the composer’s life and times – and provides plentiful cues for music from one of greatest composers of his age.

Cantate Domino canticum novum, SWV 281 (Cantiones sacrae, Op 4)
Capella Augustana
Matteo Messori, director

O quam tu pulchra es, SWV 265 (Symphoniae Sacrae I)
Tobias Mäthger, Georg Poplutz, tenor
Margret Baumgartl, Karina Müller, violin
Andreas Arend, theorbo
Matthias Müller, violone
Ludger Rémy, organ
Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor

Wie sehr lieblich und schöne sind doch die Wohnung dein, SWV 181 (Becker-Psalter, Op 5)
Magdalena Kircheis, soprano
Aneta Petrasová, alto
Tobias Mäthger, tenor
Martin Schicketanz, bass
Dresden Chamber Choir
Margret Baumgartl, violin
Matthias Müller, violone
Stefan Maass, theorbo
Michaela Hasselt, organ
Hans-Christoph Rademann, director

Habe deine Lust an dem Herren, SWV 311 (Kleine geistliche Concerte II, Op 9)
Gerlinde Sämann, Isabel Schicketanz, soprano
Stefan Maass, Theorbo
Matthias Müller, viola da gamba
Ludger Rémy, organ and director

Concert in Form einer teutschen Begräbnis-Missa, SWV 279 (Musikalische Exequien)
Mary Seers, Rachel Platt, soprano
Ashley Stafford, countertenor
Frieder Lang, Nicolas Robertson, tenor
Stephen Charlesworth, bass
Lawrence Wallington, bass
The Monteverdi Choir
Alastair Ross, organ
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Gedenke deinem Knechte an dein Wort, SWV 485 (Psalm 119)
Collegium Vocale Gent
Concerto Palatino
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Produced by Chris Barstow for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales