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Vox Luminis at Aldeburgh

From the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival, Ian Skelly presents a concert marking the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Reformation, featuring Vox Luminis and director Lionel Meunier.

Ian Skelly presents a concert marking the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Reformation, given by Vox Luminis and director Lionel Meunier at the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival. 厂肠丑眉迟锄: trailblazer and master of the German baroque, whose works brilliantly marry invention with an acute sense of colour. The Musikalische Exequien is a notable example of this compelling vision: written for the funeral of Count Henirich Reuss, the motet is based on two different texts for four choirs with three to be placed in the distance. No wonder his music profoundly influenced JS Bach and even Brahms, who owned a copy of the score, possibly influencing his own German Requiem. And Bach follows with two cantatas based on Lutheran chorales: the early 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' (Christ lay in the bonds of death), and 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (God's time is the very best time), also written for a funeral and with one of the loveliest, most comforting openings in any of his works, with its glowing viola da gamba and gently rocking recorders.

厂肠丑眉迟锄:
Musikalische Exequien (34'30)

INTERVAL

JS Bach:
Cantata, BWV 106: 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (19'50)
Cantata, BWV 4: 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' (19'25)

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (director)

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2 hours, 28 minutes

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Thu 25 Jun 2020 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Heinrich Sch眉tz

    Musicalische Exequien (Funeral Music)

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.

  • Franz Liszt

    Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen

    Performer: Romain Herv茅.
    • Saphir Productions.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus)

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.4: Christ lag in Todesbanden

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.

  • Johann Michael Bach

    Unser Leben w盲hret siebenzig Jahr

    Ensemble: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.

  • Franz Schubert

    Arpeggione Sonata, D 821

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Romeo Et Juliette - Symphonie Dramatique Op.17 For Soloists, Chorus And Orchestra

    Choir: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos CHSA 5169.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 25 Jun 2020 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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