Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier
Christmas before Bach
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Recorded live in the Pieterskerk Utrecht, 15 December 2021
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About this concert
Because there is, in addition to the Christmas Oratorio, so much other brilliant Baroque music to brighten up December days, Vox Luminis is basing this Christmas programme around song repertoire from before Johann Sebastian Bach. Two cousins of Bach’s father who also belonged to the upper echelons of musical life form an immediate link. But Praetorius, Schein, Scheidt and Schütz are also represented: German music icons who brilliantly brought together rhetoric, power of expression and contrapuntal mastery almost a hundred years earlier.
Programme
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Advent – New Year
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Samuel Scheidt
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
1587-1654 -
Johann Michael Bach
Sei, lieber Tag, wilkommen
Nun treten wir ins neue Jahr1648-1694 -
Annunciation
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Heinrich Schütz
Deutsches Magnificat
1585-1672 -
Johann Christoph Bach
Lieber Herre Gott
1642-1703 -
Johann Michael Bach
Fürchtet euch nicht
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Johann Hermann Schein
Vom Himmel hoch
1586-1630 -
Michael Praetorius
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
c1571-1621 -
Nativity
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Samuel Scheidt
Puer natus in Bethlehem
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Heinrich Schütz
Hodie Christus natus est
1585-1672 -
Samuel Scheidt
Jauchzet Gott, alle Land
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Heinrich Schütz
Ein Kind ist uns geboren, SWV 384
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Andreas Hammerschmidt
Freude, Freude, große Freude
1611/12-1675 -
Adoration
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Johann Pachelbel
Singet dem Herrn
1653-1706 -
Michael Praetorius
Angelus ad pastores ait
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Hieronymus Praetorius
In dulci jubilo
1560-1629 -
Samuel Scheidt
Ach, mein herzliebes Jesulein
O Jesulein süß, O Jesulein mild
Musicians
- Zsuzsi Tóth, Victoria Cassano, Tessa Roos soprano
- Jan Kullmann, Barnabas Hegyi alto
- Philippe Froeliger, Jacob Lawrence, João Moreira tenor
- Sebastian Myrus bass
- José Rodriges Gomes dulcian
- Ricardo Rodriguez Miranda viola da gamba
- Anthony Romaniuk organ
- Lionel Meunier bass and musical direction
About the performers
The Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis, consisting of a very international cast of soloists, focuses on vocal music written between the 16th and 18th 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. Vox Luminis was artist in residence during the Utrecht Early Music Festival of 2015.