Hammerschmidt
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Throughout this meticulously plotted alternative perspective on mostly familiar texts, Vox Luminis’s squad of up to 15 voices sing with the utmost sincerity of expression. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott
Luther and the Music of the Reformation
Bart Jacobs (organ)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Lionel Meunier’s assured direction never misses (nor overstates) an expressive trick; and Vox Luminis’s warmly inflected singing is throughout finely-attuned to the way in which every note has... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 19th August 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. German Baroque Sacred Music: Christmas
Ricercar Consort (early music ensemble), Ensemble La Fenice (early music ensemble), Agnès Mellon (soprano), Capella Ricercar, Greta De Reyghere, Ian Honeyman, Bernard Foccroulle (organ), Capella Sancti Michaelis, Henri Ledroit, Guy De Mey, Max van Egmond (baritone), Victor Demaiffe, Guy Penson, Thibault...
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Meunier has devised a programme suitable for Passiontide and Easter, exquisitely delivered with just the right degree of refined expression in the voices to make all sound natural rather than... —
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Vox Luminis’s Florian Sievers is a compassionate Evangelist and Erika Tandiono delivers the Angel’s appearances to the shepherds and Joseph blissfully (her sentimentality shared by dulcetly... —
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Special offer. Du Bist Schön und Lieblich
Clematis (chamber ensemble), Capucine Keller, Maxime Melnik
The music is very engaging and confirms Hammerschmidt as a distinctive composer...Clematis are a solid, sensitive string band with continuo and a recorder player doubling on bassoon. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Johann Philipp Krieger (d.1725) has the most recordings here, and his 'Benedicam Dominum' (Psalm 34) provides the perfect medium for the lyrical suavity of Platz's voice... The works of Johann... —
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The Christmas Album
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (soloist), Christian Heiss, Johannes Berger, Hans Berger, Ilias Grau (soloist), Edeltraud Appl, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra, Florian Helgath
It turns out that Appl’s contribution to the season of goodwill is as thoughtfully assembled as one of his Lieder programmes, and performed with the same level of care. The Regensburg boys are... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2024
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His setting of Dixit Dominus comes off best: the dramatic traits of this work are perfectly conveyed. The solo parts are well sung, for instance by Franz Vitzthum (alto) and Dominik Wörner (bass)...All... —
