Bach: Magnificat - Handel: Dixit Dominus Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243:
• 1 Chorus "Magnificat anima mea" 03:01
• 2 Aria "Et exultavit" 02:22
• 3 Aria "Quia respexit" 02:11
• 4 Chorus "Omne generationes" 02:23
• 5 Aria "Quia fecit mihi magna" 02:10
• 6 Aria (Duetto) "Et misericordia" 03:29
• 7 Chorus "Fecit potentiam" 02:03
• 8 Aria "Deposuit potentes" 01:54
• 9 Aria "Esurientes implevit bonis" 03:04
• 10 Aria (Terzetto) "Suscepit Israel" 01:56
• 11 Chorus "Sicut locutus" 02:08
• 12 Chorus "Gloria patri" 02:16
• Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759): Dixit Dominus, HWV 232:
• 13 Chorus "Dixit Dominus Domino meo" 05:52
• 14 Aria "Virgam virturis tuae" 03:09
• 15 Aria "Tecum principium in die virtutis" 02:53
• 16 Chorus "Juravit Dominus" 02:39
• 17 Chorus "Tu es sacerdos in aeternum" 01:37
• 18 Chorus "Dominus a dextris tuis" 03:00
• 19 Chorus "Judicabit in nationibus" 02:33
• 20 Chorus "Conquassabit capita" 01:07
• 21 Duetto & Chorus "De torrente in via bibet" 03:24
• 22 Chorus "Gloria patri et filio" 06:08
• Total Runtime 01:01:19

Info for Bach: Magnificat - Handel: Dixit Dominus

After several recordings on Ricercar and a first disc on Alpha, Actus Tragicus, containing early Bach cantatas, ‘of staggering profundity, purity and beauty’ (ffff Télérama), Lionel Meunier and his ensemble Vox Luminis devote this new project to two showpieces by Handel and Bach.

Of these two composers born in 1685, the first travelled to Italy in 1707 and made a powerful impression in Rome with the creation of his Dixit Dominus, while the second produced one of his finest compositional tours de force in the Magnificat of 1723/32-35. Two work from the core repertoire of the Belgian ensemble, here fielding combined vocal and instrumental forces, which is perfectly versed in the style and expression of Baroque rhetoric.

Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, direction

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