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In 1668, Dietrich Buxtehude, then thirty one years old, took up the very sought-after tenure of organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, then a Hanseatic metropolis of considerable relevance; the organist had at that time one of the most desirable social statuses. He soon caused a sensation with the church concerts he held outside of religious services and that happened every year, in the early evening, on the five Sundays preceding Christmas. During these “Abendmusiken” (vespertine music), as they were called, were sometimes performed great works falling withing the oratorio genre, but more often was performed a mix of instrumental pieces, church tunes, psalm arrangements and cantata-like works. From the 1700s, these series of concerts had become a major cultural event of the city. Released from the daily handling of religious music handled by the Marienkirche’s Cantor—as was often the case at the time in North Germany—, Buxtehude only composed works on his own initiative, which allowed him to give them a quality level noticeably higher than that of the Cantor, for example, forced to compose non-stop, from one Sunday to another. The cantatas recorded here demonstrate the high artistic ambitions of these vocal works: they often digress from stylistic and generic conventions of their time and answer the tasks imposed by the texts with bold musical solutions, daring and absolutely splendid. The sonatas from Buxtehude completing the vocal program of this disc are also characterized by their markedly experimental character. Olivier Fortin’s Masques Ensemble—recorder, strings, positive organ—and Lionel Meunier’s Vox Luminis join forces to offer us these gems from the turn of the North German 18th century, such gems that the young Bach didn’t hesitate, in 1705, to travel on foot from Arnstadt—a 100-league trip—to come listen to Buxtehude, his organ play and probably his famous Abendmusiken. © SM/Qobuz
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Gott hilf mir, BuxWV 34 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sebastian Myrus, Bass (Vox Luminis) - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sebastian Myrus, Bass (Vox Luminis) - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sebastian Myrus, Bass (Vox Luminis) - Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Trio Sonata in A Minor, BuxWV 272 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Ensemble Masques (Sophie Gent, Violin - Mélissande Corriveau, Viola da gamba) - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Harpsichord - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Befiehl dem Engel, dass er komm' in A Minor, BuxWV 10 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Jesu, meine Freude in E Minor, BuxWV 60 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sara Jäggi, Soprano (Vox Luminis) - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sebastian Myrus, Bass (Vox Luminis) - Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis (Zsuzsi Tóth, Stefanie True, Sopranos - Sebastian Myrus, Bass) - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Caroline Weynants, Soprano (Vox Luminis) - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Trio Sonata in B-Flat Major, BuxWV 255 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Ensemble Masques (Sophie Gent, Violin - Mélissande Corriveau, Viola da gamba) - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Harpsichord - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Herzlich Lieb hab' ich dich, O Herr, BuxWV 41 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Trio Sonata in D Major, BuxWV 267 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Ensemble Masques : Benoit Vanden Bemden, Violone - Mélissande Corriveau, Viola da gamba - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Harpsichord - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Jesu, meines Lebens Leben in D Minor, BuxWV 62 (Dieterich Buxtehude)
Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, Conductor & Bass - Ensemble Masques - Olivier Fortin, Conductor & Organ - Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Album review
In 1668, Dietrich Buxtehude, then thirty one years old, took up the very sought-after tenure of organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, then a Hanseatic metropolis of considerable relevance; the organist had at that time one of the most desirable social statuses. He soon caused a sensation with the church concerts he held outside of religious services and that happened every year, in the early evening, on the five Sundays preceding Christmas. During these “Abendmusiken” (vespertine music), as they were called, were sometimes performed great works falling withing the oratorio genre, but more often was performed a mix of instrumental pieces, church tunes, psalm arrangements and cantata-like works. From the 1700s, these series of concerts had become a major cultural event of the city. Released from the daily handling of religious music handled by the Marienkirche’s Cantor—as was often the case at the time in North Germany—, Buxtehude only composed works on his own initiative, which allowed him to give them a quality level noticeably higher than that of the Cantor, for example, forced to compose non-stop, from one Sunday to another. The cantatas recorded here demonstrate the high artistic ambitions of these vocal works: they often digress from stylistic and generic conventions of their time and answer the tasks imposed by the texts with bold musical solutions, daring and absolutely splendid. The sonatas from Buxtehude completing the vocal program of this disc are also characterized by their markedly experimental character. Olivier Fortin’s Masques Ensemble—recorder, strings, positive organ—and Lionel Meunier’s Vox Luminis join forces to offer us these gems from the turn of the North German 18th century, such gems that the young Bach didn’t hesitate, in 1705, to travel on foot from Arnstadt—a 100-league trip—to come listen to Buxtehude, his organ play and probably his famous Abendmusiken. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:25:00
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier Ensemble Masques Olivier Fortin
- Composer: Dieterich Buxtehude
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical Sacred Vocal Music
2018 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2017 Vox Luminis & Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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