JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER (c.1620-1680): Requiem, Die Stärke der Liebe, Lamento Sopra la Morte Ferdinandi III, From Sacro-Profanus Concentus Musicus: Sonatas 7, 8 & 10.

Description: Only available recordings of the little fifteen minute requiem whose occasion is unknown but whose scoring points to a very intimate setting, and the Stärke der Liebe. The latter is of a genre, little-recorded, called "Sepolcro", one-act musical dramas consisting of an overture and a series of recitatives and arias, based on the Passion, and in this case probably intended for private use of a member of the Imperial Family in Vienna. No texts. Il Concerto Barocco.