Heinrich Schütz and his legacy (cd)
PassacailleAsu: CD-levyVuosi: 2016, 01.12.2016Kieli: und Diapason d'Or de l'Année 2017, Winner - Musique Baroque.
Alice Foccroulle (soprano), InAlto, Lambert Colson.
"Him alone did they call the Father of all musicians, to whom the Germans were indebted for enabling them now to bring music to a standard equal to that of the Italians, if not even higher". So wrote Johann Mattheson in 1740 in praise of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), the most revered German musician of his generation. On this CD the ensemble inAlto present works by Schütz himself, but also by some of his students, which show why Schütz was such a good teacher, who handed on his talent to the following generation.