Vox Luminis and Freiburg Baroque

Hannah French presents highlights of a concert given by two of Europe's finest early music ensembles: Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. They combined forces at the Thuringia Bach Festival in Eisenach earlier this year to perform sacred music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his good friend Georg Philipp Telemann.

Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in G, BWV.236
Georg Philipp Telemann – Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, TWV 1:494
Georg Philipp Telemann – Nun kömmt die grosse Marterwoche, TWV 1:1179

Erika Tandiono (soprano)
Līga Zīriņa (soprano)
Sophia Faltas (mezzo-soprano)
Philippe Froeliger (tenor)
Vojtech Semerad (tenor)
Sebastian Myrus (bass)
Vox Luminis
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

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