Stile Antico, among the world’s finest vocalensembles, explores music of mourning andcommemoration from Austria and Germany inits latest Wigmore Hall concert.

The journeybegins with a late motet by the remarkablyprolific, consistently inventive Lassus, whofinished his illustrious career as Kapellmeisterto the Duke of Bavaria. It continues withSchütz’s sublime Musicalische Exequien,written during the Thirty Years War for thefuneral of Prince Heinrich of Reuss, andfinally arrives at Bach’s peerless funeralmotet for the wife of Leipzig’s postmaster.