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.