With Donald MacLeod.
2: Family Troubles. Heinrich Schutz had more than his fair share of family upsets and grief. The first of a long line of bereavements began with the death of his much loved wife Magdalena in 1625, leaving him with two young daughters to bring up. Schutz never remarried but busied himself with producing the Becker Psalter , a collection of part-songs based on the psalm paraphrases of the Leipzig theologian Cornelius Becker. More surprisingly, Schutz's long period of mourning also found him pushing musical frontiers forward by writing what may be the first German oratorio.
Selig Sind die Toten , SWV391 Collegium Vocale , director Philippe Herreweghe Liebster, Sagt in Sussem Schmerzen , SWV441 Weser-Renaissance Bremen, director Manfred Cordes
Die Auferstehung Unsres Herren Jesu Christi, SWV50 Martin Hummel ,
Gerd Turk and Kurt Widmaier (tenors), Andreas Lebeda and Werner Gura (baritones)
Concerto Vocale, director Rene Jacobs In Te, Domine Sacrae (Symphoniae
Sacrae Book 1) Rogers Covey-Crump (alto), Concerto
Palatino Schaffe in Mir, Gott, eine Reines Herz,
SWV291; Der Herr Schauetvon Himmel, SWV392; Wann Unsre Augen Schlafen ein, SVW316; Eile, Mich, Gott, zu Erretten, SWV182; (Kleine Geistliche Konzerte) Agnes Mellon (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Collegium Vocale , director Philippe Herreweghe Stehe auf Meine Freundin , SWV499 Schutz-Akademie, conductor Howard Arman