Bruce Wood explores the music of Germany's first great composer. 3: War and Sudden Death.
Throughout the 1630s, the horrors of the Thirty Years' War profoundly affected Schutz's professional life, and he also suffered a crushing series of personal losses. Yet his creativity was undiminished. Bruce Wood explores the music he composed for the funerals of his friends, some of his sacred music for the small forces which were all a war-torn country could muster, and organ music by his talented pupil, Matthias Weckmann.
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm