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Vox Luminis already boasts an impressive discography, orientated mainly towards sacred music and German repertoire (its album devoted to music by Heinrich Schütz won the Gramophone ‘Best Recording of the Year’ Award in 2013). Now this ensemble, founded nearly fifteen years ago by Lionel Meunier, has scaled one of the summits of English music: the legend of King Arthur and his mentor the wizard Merlin inspired one of Henry Purcell’s most popular successes, King Arthur, a semi-opera on which Purcell lavished all his exuberant musical and theatrical inventiveness.
In this revelatory new reading, the Vox Luminis vocal sound always perfectly matches the mix of choruses and highly characterized vocal solos. Prior to recording, the group presented the work in many semi-staged concerts, notably in Britain, where this Franco-Belgian ensemble has enjoyed enormous success, becoming one of the most respected European ambassadors for baroque music-making.
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Reviews
*** (Good Album)
Jeremie Bigorie – Classica magazine (France) – February 2019
"... it has been decades since a recording of any of Purcell's operas as enjoyable as this."
David Vickers – Gramophone magazine – February 2019
Opera Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
"... The performers deliver a gutsy and gorgeous production... Director Lionel Meunier is the real star, with a soaring vision of Purcell's music in a class of its own."
Berta Joncus - BBC Music magazine - February 2019
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