Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Johannes Brahms drew texts from various Biblical sources for his Deutsches Requiem. As we hear in his choral music, he had a passion for polyphony and was inspired by models from the great Lutheran tradition of the late Renaissance and the Baroque. Ricercar and Vox Luminis have explored this early repertoire with the same passion for many years now, although with no less admiration for Brahms's masterpiece. It is no surprise that some of the texts that Brahms chose had already been set by his illustrious predecessors; it simply remained for us to trace a path through these earlier scores, so many meditations on death, and to assemble a very different Deutsches Requiem: one animated by the emotions of the Lutheran Baroque.
Andreas Hammerschmidt (1612-1675) , Andreas Scharmann (16?? - 16??) , Christian Geist (1650-1711) , Heinrich Schwemmer (1621-1696) , Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) , Johann Philipp Förtsch (1652-1732) , Thomas Selle (1599-1663) , Tobias Michael (1592-1657) , Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1626-1712)
- Andreas Hammerschmidt: Ach wie gar nichts sind alle Menschen; Der Tod ist verschlungen; Ich hebe meine Augen auf zu den Bergen
+Andreas Scharmann: Gedenke, Herr, wie es uns gehet
+Christian Geist: Die mit Tränen säen
+Heinrich Schwemmer: Die Gerechten Seelen sind in Gottes Hand
+Johann Hermann Schein: Selig sind die da geistlich arm sind; Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen; Ich will schweigen
+Johann Philipp Förtsch: Selig sind die Toten
+Thomas Selle: Sinfonia "Und da der Sabbath vergangen war"
+Wolfgang Carl Briegel: Ach, Herr, lehre doch mich
+Tobias Michael: Die Erlöseten des Herren
Gramophone Magazine
June 2023
Recording of the Month
June 2023
Throughout this meticulously plotted alternative perspective on mostly familiar texts, Vox Luminis’s squad of up to 15 voices sing with the utmost sincerity of expression.
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