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The Abendmusiken were a legendary concert series organised by Buxtehude in Lübeck. Even Johann Sebastian Bach travelled a long way to attend these concerts of sacred and instrumental music and met the master Dietrich Buxtehude, the most famous organist in Europe. To mark the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, Vox Luminis and the Ensemble Masques have come together to perform a programme of cantatas (Gott hilf mir, denn das Wasser geht mir bis an die Seele, BuxWV 34 | Befiehl dem Engel, dass er komm, BuxWV 10 | Jesu, meine Freude, BuxWV 60 | Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr, BuxWV 41) and instrumental pieces (Sonatas BuxWV 255 and 261). The recording assembles leading specialists of this repertory, with the expert voices of Vox Luminis combining with the vitality of the instrumentalists of Ensemble Masques.
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Reviews
Nominee in Choral section
2019 Gramophone Award Nominee
**** (Excellent Album)
Philippe Venturini - Classica magazine (France) - July-August 2019
Critics' Choice 2018
"This year I was once again beguiled by Vox Luminis, now bringing their deep and focused expressiveness to motets by Buxtehude, an apogee of all the beauty, dignity and ingenuity of German 17th-century church music..." Lindsay Kemp
"... Vox Luminis and Ensemble Masques collaborate intelligently on this free-flowing mixture of chamber sonatas and sacred pieces in performances of sensitivity and harmonic finesse." David Vickers
Gramophone magazine – December 2018
*** Good Album Sound: 4/5
Gaëtan Naulleau – Diapason magazine (France) – December 2018
Baroque Vocal Category Nominee
ICMA Award Nominations 2019
“… The performances here are excellent and the recorded sound clear and warm with every detail audible. The singers and players clearly know what it takes to project a phrase convincingly, and they have technique to burn. They make it sound almost effortless. These are eloquently expressive readings without anachronistic romanticizing. Readers who know Buxtehude chiefly from his organ works will be dazzles with this music. People who already have an extensive Buxtehude collection should add this recording to it, even if it duplicates repertory from older recordings.”
William J Gatens – American Record Guide – November/December 2018
Editor’s Choice – Vocal Section
“… Perfectly balanced and beautifully recorded, this is another outstanding release from Lionel Meunier and his team.”
Lindsay Kemp - Gramophone magazine – September 2018
“Cantatas and Trio Sonatas by Dietrich Buxtehude show the quality of his output. The instrumental Ensemble Masques and the choir Vox Luminis offer totally convincing, homogeneous performances. The solo singing is excellent, and so, we can conclude that Buxtehude’s music is really presented in the best possible way.” *****
Uwe Krusch – Pizzicato.lu – 1 August 2018
Choral & Song Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
“Meunier finds a deeply human dimension to Buxtehude’s work … Rich, lively and truthful, the recorded sound consummates a seductively considered disc that pretty much never puts a foot wrong. Hanseatic heaven!”
Paul Riley – BBC Music magazine – August 2018
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