Performer: Vox Luminis
Orchestra: Freiburger Barockconsort
Conductor: Lionel Meunier
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Release: 2021
Size: 1.27 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Christoph Bernhard:
01. Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener
02. Tribularer si nescirem misericordias tuas
Johann Michael Nicolai:
03. Sonata a 6
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber:
Requiem in F minor
04. Ia. Introitus
05. Ib. Kyrie
06. II. Dies Irae
07. III. Offertorium
08. IV. Sanctus
09. V. Agnus Dei – Communio
Johann Joseph Fux:
10. Sonata a 4 in G minor, K. 347
11. Omnis terra adoret, K. 183
The winner of numerous prestigious prizes, including several Gramophone Awards, the vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, founded by Lionel Meunier in 2004, is now regarded as a benchmark in the interpretation of the great works of German Baroque music. Its unfailingly faithful and lively approach to such masters as Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidt has made the group’s reputation, but this new recording features a major work by Heinrich Biber, a composer hitherto absent from its discography: his Requiem in F minor for 14 voices, composed around 1692. The programme is completed by two sacred works by Christoph Bernhard (Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren and Tribularer si nescirem misericordias tuas), two pieces by Johann Joseph Fux, and the Sonata a 6 in A minor of Johann Michael Nicolai. This recording marks the beginning of a collaboration between Vox Luminis and another internationally renowned ensemble, the Freiburger Barockorchester, heard here in its Consort formation.