Vox Luminis’s consummate mastery of polyphonic textures, plangent sonorities and contoured phrasing is profoundly beautiful; the five soloists and five additional ‘ripieno’ singers declaim text with clarity and decorum....Never anything less than sublime.

Later Requiems wallow in grief at times or stray into the histrionic for the lurid scenes of apocalyptic judgement in the Dies Irae, but Kerll does neither...Fux may have been among Kerll’s pupils, and his Requiem definitely shares something of Kerll’s pensive mood, but there are certainly differences in style; Fux makes far greater use of poignant dissonances throughout his Requiem.

The excellent vocal ensemble Vox Luminis goes from strength to strength with its deftly inflected, pure, rather un-English singing.

No questioning the evidence here of the outstanding quality of Vox Luminis – nor of the talents of individual singers from the ensemble who tackle the plentiful solo passages which both works throw up...the sound is immaculate, capturing the sense of space the venues offer but with detail never obscured.