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AJ 0665
Biber: Requiem
Label Catalogue Number:
Alpha665
Alpha665
Running Time: 72:02
Release Date: February 2021
Originally recorded in 2020
Originally recorded in 2020
Genre:
Baroque
Baroque
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The winner of numerous prestigious prizes, including several Gramophone Awards, the vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, founded by Lionel Meunier in 2004, is now regarded as a benchmark in the interpretation of the great works of German Baroque music. Its unfailingly faithful and lively approach to such masters as Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidt has made the group’s reputation, but this new recording features a major work by Heinrich Biber, a composer hitherto absent from its discography: his Requiem in F minor for 14 voices, composed around 1692. The programme is completed by two sacred works by Christoph Bernhard (Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren and Tribularer si nescirem misericordias tuas), two pieces by Johann Joseph Fux, and the Sonata a 6 in A minor of Johann Michael Nicolai. This recording marks the beginning of a collaboration between Vox Luminis and another internationally renowned ensemble, the Freiburger Barockorchester, heard here in its Consort formation.
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Reviews
“…This fine interpretation of the Biber masterwork is enhanced by the surrounding selections, so the continued availability of earlier versions does not prevent a recommendation to new purchasers who have not discovered its strengths.”
J F Weber – Fanfare – January/February 2022
Baroque Vocal category - Nominee
International Classical Music Awards 2022
Nominee in the Choral category
Gramophone Awards 2021
“… There is so much to admire in the overall interpretations on this release … and I do highly recommend the Bernhard, Nicolai, and Fux selections…”
Charles Brewer – American Record Guide – July/August 2021
Performance ***** Recording *****
“… Intense but never histrionic, the performance captures the work’s power and intimacy. We’re also treated to a clutch of superb but little-known pieces by Biber’s contemporaries…”
Kate Bolton-Porciatti – BBC Music magazine – May 2021
***** Coup de Cœur
Jeremie Bigorie - Classica magazine (France) - April 2021
“… These are rarities on record all right, linked by a rich and serious tone well suited to Vox Luminis’s familiar strengths. It is a pleasure to find Lionel Meunier’s marvellous ensemble devoting time to them…”
Lindsay Kemp - Gramophone magazine - April 2021
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