Artist: Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Title: Kerll & Fux: Requiems
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2016
Duration: 01:15:11
Quality: High-Fidelity FLAC Stereo 24bit/88,2kHz
Label: Ricercar

This recording presents two Austrian requiems of totally different character. Johann Joseph Fux wrote his Requiem in 1720 for the funeral of Eleonora von Neuburg, widow of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. Composed by a musician reputed for his theoretical skill, it impresses with the quality of the polyphonic writing combined with a very rich instrumental fabric comprising cornets, trombones and bassoon in addition to violins, instruments also benefiting from concertante interventions.

This requiem was played on numerous occasions for official ceremonies, including again for the funeral of Karl VI in 1740. On the other hand, Johann Caspar Kerll’s version is presented in a much more intermits way. As he himself stated in the preface to the edition, this requiem was written” for my soul’s peace”. It is scored for an ensemble of five voices backed up by a quartet of viols. In a more archaic style, its intense emotion is doubtless influenced by the music of his Roman master, Giacomo Carissimi.

Tracklist:

  1. Missa pro defunctis: Introitus (Requiem aeternam – Te decet hymnus – Requiem aeternam) – 5:26
  2. Missa pro defunctis: Kyrie – 2:02
  3. Missa pro defunctis: Sequenza – 13:34
  4. Missa pro defunctis: Offertorium (Domine Jesu Christe – Sed signifer – Quam olim Abrahae) – 3:57
  5. Missa pro defunctis: Sanctus – Beneditus – Hosanna – 4:27
  6. Missa pro defunctis: Agnus Dei – 2:34
  7. Missa pro defunctis: Communio (Lux aeterna) – 2:44
  8. Kaiserrequiem: Introitus (Requiem aeternam – Te decet hymnus – Requiem aeternam) – 6:47
  9. Kaiserrequiem: Kyrie – 3:12
  10. Kaiserrequiem: Sequenza – 15:07
  11. Kaiserrequiem: Offertorium (Domine Jesu Christe – Sed signifer – Quam olim Abrahae) – 5:00
  12. Kaiserrequiem: Sanctus – Beneditus – Hosanna – 3:33
  13. Kaiserrequiem: Agnus Dei – 1:54
  14. Kaiserrequiem: Communio (Lux aeterna) – 4:59

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