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Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 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.
Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 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.
About
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.
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Episode 37: Brahms In The Time Machine – Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem with Lionel Meunier
Founder and director of early music ensemble Vox Luminis talks about his hunt for Baroque-era precursors to Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceApril 2023
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Gramophone MagazineJune 2023Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2023
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.
April 2023
Meunier has stitched together a rich and varied tapestry on this 'Lutheran requiem', including earlier settings of the texts which Brahms would later incorporate into his own Deutsches Requiem: highlights include Christian Geist's 'Die mit Tranen saen' (where delicate antiphonal exchanges eventually give way to an imposing wall of sound), and Johann Hermann Schein's 'Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen', which yields little to Brahms in gentle radiance. The singers of Vox Luminus are unfailingly affecting and stylish, both singly and together.
18th June 2023
The fruits of their research, superbly captured in the church of Notre-Dame in Gedinne in Belgium, are uniformly moving and instructive, the more so because the performances are exceptional; the balance and nuance in both singing and playing (notably Bart Jacobs’s organ) are extraordinary.
