Following formative training in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli, Heinrich Schütz devoted his long creativelife to his duties as Kapellmeister to the electors of Saxony in Dresden.

EXAUDI explores treasuresfrom the composer’s great anthology of sacred pieces, the Geistliche Chormusik, published in theclosing months of the bloody Thirty Years War.

Christopher Fox’s Trostlieder, written specially for this concert in his 60th birthday year, are companion pieces to Schütz’s great masterpiece, and set texts from Martin Opitz’s ‘Poems of Comfort’ (1633), which Schütz would have known well.