Handel: Dixit Dominus - Bach: Magnificat / Meunier, Vox Luminis

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
November 17, 2017
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HANDEL BACH
    • PERFORMER
      Vox Luminis, Meunier
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 17, 2017
    • UPC
      3760014193705
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA370
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Magnificat anima mea

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    2. Et exultavit

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    3. Quia respexit

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    4. Omnes generationes

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    5. Quia fecit mihi magna

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    6. Et misericordia

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    7. Fecit potentiam

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    8. Deposuit potentes

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    9. Esurientes

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    10. Suscepit Israel

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    11. Sicut locutus est

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    12. Gloria Patri

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    13. Dixit Dominus Domino meo

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    14. Virgam virtutis tuae

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    15. Tecum principium

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    16. Juravit Dominus

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    17. Tu es sacerdos

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    18. Dominus a dextris tuis

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    19. Judicabit in nationibus

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    20. Conquassabit capita

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    21. De torrente in via bibet

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier

    22. Gloria Patri et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Vox Luminis

      Conductor: Lionel Meunier


After several recordings on Ricercar and a first disc on Alpha, Actus Tragicus, containing early Bach cantatas, 'of staggering profundity, purity and beauty' (ffff Telerama), Lionel Meunier and his ensemble Vox Luminis devote this new project to two showpieces by Handel and Bach. Of these two composers born in 1685, the first travelled to Italy in 1707 and made a powerful impression in Rome with the creation of his Dixit Dominus, while the second produced one of his finest compositional tours de force in the Magnificat of 1723/32-35. Two works from the core repertoire of the Belgian ensemble, here fielding combined vocal and instrumental forces, which is perfectly versed in the style and expression of Baroque rhetoric. Vox Luminis is a Belgian early music ensemble created in 2004 by it's artistic director Lionel Meunier. Today, the ensemble performs over 60 concerts a year, appearing on stages in Belgium, across Europe and around the world. The size and composition of the group depends on the repertoire being performed but the core of soloists, mostly from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, is joined by a continuo and additional (orchestral) instrument performers. It's repertoire is essentially Italian, English and German and spans from the 16th to the 18th century. Since it's inception, the ensemble is defined by it's unity and seduces as much through the personality of each timbre as it does through the colour and the uniformity of the voices. It is more than a fixed repertoire, the ensemble members wholeheartedly communicate their passion for early music and love for the audience.