Archived Event

Pachelbel, Buxtehude and JS Bach
Vox Luminis; Lionel Meunier director
Date
Thu 16 Oct 2014, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Availability

Artists

  • Vox Luminis
    • Lionel Meunierdirector

    Programme

    Interval

        • Cantata: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV106
        • Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr BWV131

    Overview

    Every performance by Vox Luminis blends meticulous preparation and enlightened scholarship with spine-tingling spontaneity and excellence.

    The Belgian ensemble and its inspirational Artistic Director, Lionel Meunier, return to Wigmore Hall with a programme rooted in the vibrant sacred choral tradition cultivated in northern Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Cantatas by Pachelbel and Buxtehude provide the colourful context for Bach’s Actus Tragicus, a moving meditation on the impermanence of earthly life most likely written during its young composer’s year as organist in the Thuringian town of Mühlhausen, and its near contemporary, the church cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir.

    Supported by donors to Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal music in all its forms throughout the 2014/15 Season

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