Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier
Bach's single-choir motets in perspective
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal, Utrecht, 2 September 2023
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About this concert
'Study Bach, there you will find everything!' Johannes Brahms is reported to have once exclaimed. In this first part of their Bach diptych, audience favourite Vox Luminis presents Bach's single-choir motets, a genre that had already been laid to rest in his time. The classic of the afternoon is the gigantic funeral motet Jesu, meine Freude. As a bonus: Brahms' Missa Canonica, in Baroque polyphony that could have been by Bach himself.
Programme
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu meine Freude, BWV 227
1685-1750 -
Felix Mendelssohn
Thema mit Variationen, MWV W 32 instrumental
1809-1847 -
Johannes Brahms
Missa Canonica, WoO 18
Kyrie
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei1833-1897 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654 instrumental
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Felix Mendelssohn
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir Op. 23 nr. 1
(from: Kirchenmusik, Bonn 1832)
Musicians
- Zsuzsi Toth, Viola Blache, Erika Tandiono, Hannah Ely, Marta Muranyi, Agnes Van Laar soprano
- Jan Kullmann, Sophia Faltas, Tessa Roos, Korneel Van Neste, Sofia Gvirts, Eszter Balogh alto
- João Moreira, Philippe Froeliger, Raphael Höhn, Adriaan De Koster, Jacob Lawrence tenor
- Vincent De Soomer, Sebastian Myrus, Roland Faust, Lorant Najbauer, Tobias Wicky bass
- Bart Jacobs organ
- Lionel Meunier bass and musical direction
About the performers
The ensemble Vox Luminis, consisting of a very international cast of soloists, focuses on vocal music written between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Most of the group met at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. The ensemble operates independently but also collaborates with instrumental groups such as Les Muffatti. Their CDs on the Ricercar label have been received with enthusiasm, including Schütz’ Musikalische Exequien, and English Royal Funeral Music, with works by Purcell and others. Their latest CD, Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem, was released in May 2023. Vox Luminis was artist in residence during the Utrecht Early Music Festival of 2015.