Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier – Bach: Magnificat – Handel: Dixit Dominus (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:18 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
After several recordings on Ricercar and a first disc on Alpha, “Actus Tragicus”, containing early Bach cantatas, ‘of staggering profundity, purity and beauty’ (ffff Télérama), 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 theMagnificat 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.
Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
01. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus “Magnificat anima mea”
02. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Aria “Et exultavit”
03. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Aria “Quia respexit”
04. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus “Omne generationes”
05. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Aria “Quia fecit mihi magna”
06. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Aria (Duetto) “Et misericordia”
07. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus “Fecit potentiam”
08. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Aria “Deposuit potentes”
09. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Aria “Esurientes implevit bonis”
10. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Aria (Terzetto) “Suscepit Israel”
11. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus “Sicut locutus”
12. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Chorus “Gloria patri”
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759)
13. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Chorus “Dixit Dominus Domino meo”
14. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Aria “Virgam virturis tuae”
15. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Aria “Tecum principium in die virtutis”
16. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Chorus “Juravit Dominus”
17. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Chorus “Tu es sacerdos in aeternum”
18. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Chorus “Dominus a dextris tuis”
19. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Chorus “Judicabit in nationibus”
20. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Chorus “Conquassabit capita”
21. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Duetto & Chorus “De torrente in via bibet”
22. Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Chorus “Gloria patri et filio”