Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem

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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. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2023 More…

Release Date: 14th Apr 2023
Catalogue No: RIC445
Label: Ricercar
Length: 78 minutes

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Scharmann: Gedenke, Herr, wie es uns gehet

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Selle: Sinfonia Und da der Sabbath vergangen war

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Schein: Selig sind, die da geistlich arm sind

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Geist, C: Die mit Tranen saen

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Michael, T: Die Erloseten des Herren

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Briegel: Ach, Herr, lehre doch mich

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Hammerschmidt: Ach wie gar nichts sind alle Menschen

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Heinrich Schwemmer: Die Gerechten Seelen sind in Gottes Hand

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Schein: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen

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Schein: Ich will schweigen, und meinen Mund nicht auftun

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Hammerschmidt: Der Tod ist verschlungen

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Förtsch: Selig sind die Toten

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Hammerschmidt: Ich hebe meine Augen auf zu den Bergen

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Presto Music Classical Podcast, Episode 37: Brahms In The Time Machine – Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem with Lionel Meunier

24th June 2023

Founder and director of early music ensemble Vox Luminis talks about his hunt for Baroque-era precursors to Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem.

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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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.

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