Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent disc
This is another excellent disc from Vox Luminis. I already have several recordings of each of
these works but was very happy to try interpretations by this excellent
ensemble and they were well up to expectations.
The music itself is, of course wonderful. Both Bach's setting of the Magnificat and
Handel's Dixit Dominus scarcely need any praise from me because they are so
well known, so enjoyable and obviously such works of genius. Vox Luminis do them proud. There is immense skill and virtuosity here
among both singers and players, but it's worn lightly so that the music flows
and coalesces completely naturally. The
balance is excellent so the overall sound is lovely (and very well recorded) and
there is real emotion throughout - often
joy, but true contemplative spirituality too where appropriate.
I don't think you could do much better for either of these
two great works. This will stand
alongside my old, dearly loved recordings by John Eliot Gardiner, Andrew
Parrott and others and I can recommend it warmly.
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