Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier – Kantaten (Extended Version) (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier – Kantaten (Extended Version) (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:54 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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Vox Luminis looks to the past and the future with this special digital reissue of its Kantaten recording comprising spiritual concerts and sacred cantatas by the ancestors of Johann Sebastian Bach. Named a Choice recording by both BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone upon its release in 2019, this new edition is enriched by three additional compositions which have just been recorded for Ricercar’s forthcoming release of the complete edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ancestors: Kyrie a 6 by Heinrich Bach, Liebster Jesu, hör mein Flehen by Johann Michael Bach and Siehe wie fein und lieblich ist by Georg Christoph Bach. The Kantaten programme also includes the cantata for the Feast of St Michael the Archangel by Johann Christoph Bach and the cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden by Johann Sebastian Bach, in its original version dating from his Arnstadt period, containing copious elements linking it to the music of his forebears.This is an album of Bach cantatas with a difference, and it is a major one: it covers members of the Bach family including Johann Sebastian himself, and, more unusually, his predecessors rather than his sons. This is intriguing for two reasons: first, the works of these composers were not well preserved; second, as performed here by the delicious choir Vox Luminis and leader Lionel Meunier, the music reveals the largely unsuspected influence of these composers on Johann Sebastian. It’s not as though Johann Sebastian tried to hide this (in a sketch of his own genealogy, he called Johann Christoph Bach “the profound composer”), but works by these composers have rarely been put together on an album. Generally, the list of Johann Sebastian’s influences focuses on the music of Buxtehude, Georg Böhm, and other members of the North German organ school. However, consider Johann Christoph, the first cousin of Johann Sebastian’s father, Johann Ambrosius Bach (and also the uncle of Johann Sebastian’s first wife, Maria Barbara Bach, his second cousin). Sample the sizable cantata Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig, with its sequence of arias that approach the theme of the cantata from different angles and gives the choir other things to do besides provide a foundation of warmth. The range of the finale chorus is also impressive. You are not so far from Johann Sebastian’s Cantata No. 4, “Christ lag in Todesbanden,” BWV 4; that work was written in 1707 in Arnstadt, the home of the Bach clan. Also included are cantatas by Johann Christoph’s father Heinrich Bach (1615-1692), the patriarch of the whole group, from whom little music has survived. His Ich danke dir Gott, a choral cantata probably from the middle of the 17th century, is naturally more Italianate in style, but this too is interesting: contemporary Italian styles had penetrated even to the small town of Arnstadt. The last Bach involved is Johann Christoph’s brother Johann Michael Bach, who is also poorly represented on recordings; his Herr, der König freuet sich has a very Bachian splendor. This is a fresh, luxuriously sung and played, and even revelatory recordings.

Tracklist:

01. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ (06:23)
02. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Die Furcht des Herren (07:51)
03. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Kyrie a 6 (04:09)
04. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Ich danke dir Gott (05:44)
05. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Herr, der König freuet sich (05:39)
06. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Liebster Jesu, hör mein Flehen (07:14)
07. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig (12:53)
08. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Siehe wie fein und lieblich ist: I. Sinfonia (01:42)
09. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Siehe wie fein und lieblich ist: II. Siehe wie fein… (05:33)
10. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: I. Sinfonia (01:08)
11. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: II. Christ lag in Todesbanden (03:58)
12. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: III. Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt (03:38)
13. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: IV. Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn (02:01)
14. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: V. Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg (02:31)
15. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: VI. Hie ist das rechte Osterlamm (02:58)
16. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: VII. So feiern wir das hohe Fest (01:41)
17. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4: VIII. Wie essen und wir leben wohl (01:30)
18. Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier – Bach: Es erhub sich ein Streit (09:12)

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