Vox Luminis are a Belgian early music vocal ensemble led by Lionel Meunier. Their recording of

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque music, Baroque composer and organ (music), organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of ...

's ''

Musicalische Exequien , Op. 7, SWV 279–281, is a sacred funeral music that Heinrich Schütz wrote in 1635 or 1636 for the funeral services of Count Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera, who had died on 3 December 1635. It is Schütz's most famous work of funeral music. ...

'' for Ricercar won a

Gramophone Award The Gramophone Classical Music Awards, launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry. The British awards are often viewed as equivalent to or surpassing the American Grammy ...

and

International Classical Music Awards The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are music awards first awarded 6 April 2011. ICMA replace the Cannes Classical Awards (later called MIDEM Classical Awards) formerly awarded at MIDEM. The jury consists of music critics of magazines ...

(ICMA) in 2012.

Recordings (choice)

Domenico Scarlatti Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque music, Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical peri ...

Stabat Mater The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to the Virgin Mary that portrays her suffering as mother during the crucifixion of her son Jesus Christ. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III.Saba ...

a 10 voci. Te Deum. Salve Regina. Vox Luminis Ensemble Ricercar 2007 *

Samuel Scheidt Samuel Scheidt (baptized 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era. Life and career Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with ...

- Cantiones Sacræ Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar 2010 *

Ricercar, * English Royal Funeral Music. Morley Purcell Tomkins Weelkes Les Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier 2013 *

Reinhard Keiser Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg ...

: Brockes-Passion. Tóth, Van Elsacker, Kooij, Les Muffatti and Vox Luminis, Peter Van Heyghen Ramee 2014 *

Lassus Orlando di Lasso ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with William Byrd, Giovanni Pierlu ...

: Biographie Musicale Volume V Lassus l’Européen Musique en Wallonie 2015 * J. Bach, J.Chr. Bach & J.M. Bach: Motetten Ricercar 2015 *

Johann Fux Johann Joseph Fux (; – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise on counterpoint, '' Gradus ad Parnassum'', which has ...

: Kaiserrequiem Kerll: Missa pro defunctis. Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar 2016 * J.S. Bach:

Actus Tragicus (God's time is the very best time), , also known as ''Actus tragicus'', is an early sacred cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Mühlhausen, intended for a funeral. The earliest source for the composition is a copied manuscript dated 1 ...

– Cantatas BWV 106, 150, 131, 12, Alpha, 2016 * ''"

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (originally written in German with the title "") is one of the best known hymns by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnwriter. Luther wrote the words and composed the hymn tune between 1527 an ...

" Luther and the Music of the Reformation'', Bart Jacobs (organ) Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar 2017 * 2018:

Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version o ...

, ''

King Arthur According to legends, King Arthur (; ; ; ) was a king of Great Britain, Britain. He is a folk hero and a central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain. In Wales, Welsh sources, Arthur is portrayed as a le ...

'' (Alpha 430) * 2019: ''Bach - Kantaten'' (Ricercar RIC 401) * ''Orphée aux enfers'' (H.488 & H.471) by

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'' ''H.146, Marche en rondeau''. This theme is st ...

, with A Nocte Temporis, Alpha, 2020. * 2020:

Andreas Hammerschmidt Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612 – 29 October 1675) was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Germany in the middle 17th centu ...

, ''Ach Jesus stirbt'' (Ricercar, RIC 418) * 2021:

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber correctly ''Biber von Bibern'' ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left ...

, Requiem, with Freiburger Barockkonsort (Alpha 665)

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