Kerll / Fux: Requiems – Vox Luminis

Cet enregistrement présente deux Requiems autrichiens aux caractères fort contrastés. Une découverte musicale significative, superbement défendue par Vox Luminis.

Deze opname stelt twee Oostenrijkse Requiems voor met een sterk contrasterend karakter. Beide zijn belangrijke muzikale ontdekkingen met veel verve verdedigd door Vox Luminis.   in Early Music Today (Sep, 2016)
Johann Fux (1660-1741) and Johann Kerll (1627-1693) were Kapellmeister and organist respectively of the Stephansdom in Vienna. The sleeve note by Jérôme Lejeune for this release makes much of the fact that Mozart may well have come across these two requiems in the library of the Stephansdom. Should they be seen as background to Mozart’s own famously unfinished Requiem? Mozart’s musical education would certainly have embraced the standard instruction in counterpoint found in Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum.

Kerll’s 1689 Missa pro defunctis is dedicated to the Emperor Leopold I but is reckoned to represent the composer’s reflections on his own mortality — he died only four years later. Fux’s 1720 Kaiserrequiem …