Vox Luminis are a Belgian early music vocal ensemble led by Lionel Meunier. Their recording of
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...
's ''
Musicalische Exequien'' for Ricercar won a
Gramophone Award
The Gramophone Classical Music Awards, launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry. They are often viewed as equivalent to or surpassing the American Grammy award, and refer ...
and
International Classical Music Awards
The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are music awards first awarded 6 April 2011. ICMA replace the Cannes Classical Awards (later called MIDEM Classical Awards) formerly awarded at MIDEM. The jury consists of music critics of magazines ...
(ICMA) in 2012.
Recordings (choice)
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Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti (26 October 1685-23 July 1757), was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the deve ...
:
Stabat Mater a 10 voci. Te Deum. Salve Regina. Vox Luminis Ensemble Ricercar 2007
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Samuel Scheidt
Samuel Scheidt (baptised 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.
Life and career
Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with ...
- Cantiones Sacræ Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar 2010
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Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...
:
Musicalische Exequien Ricercar,
* English Royal Funeral Music. Morley Purcell Tomkins Weelkes Les Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier 2013
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Reinhard Keiser
Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg ...
:
Brockes-Passion. Tóth, Van Elsacker, Kooij, Les Muffatti and Vox Luminis, Peter Van Heyghen Ramee 2014
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Lassus
Orlande de Lassus ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palest ...
: Biographie Musicale Volume V Lassus l’Européen Musique en Wallonie 2015
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J. Bach,
J.Chr. Bach &
J.M. Bach: Motetten Ricercar 2015
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Johann Fux
Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theory, music theorist and pedagogy, pedagogue of the late Baroque music, Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoin ...
: Kaiserrequiem
Kerll: Missa pro defunctis. Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar 2016
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J.S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the ''Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suite ...
:
Actus Tragicus – Cantatas BWV 106, 150, 131, 12, Alpha, 2016
* ''"
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (originally written in the German language with the title ) is one of the best known hymns by the Protestant Reformers, Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnwriter. Luther wrote the words and composed ...
" Luther and the Music of the Reformation'', Bart Jacobs (organ) Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar 2017
* 2018:
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...
, ''
King Arthur
King Arthur ( cy, Brenin Arthur, kw, Arthur Gernow, br, Roue Arzhur) is a legendary king of Britain, and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain.
In the earliest traditions, Arthur appears as a ...
'' (Alpha 430)
* 2019: ''Bach - Kantaten'' (Ricercar RIC 401)
* 2020:
Andreas Hammerschmidt
Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – 29 October 1675), the "Orpheus of Zittau," was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Ge ...
, ''Ach Jesus stirbt'' (Ricercar, RIC 418)
* 2021:
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl L ...
, Requiem, with Freiburger Barockkonsort (Alpha 665)
References
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