Vox Luminis et B'Rock Orchestra exceptionnels à Bozar

Vox Luminis et B'Rock Orchestra

By Patrice Lieberman, 25 May 2023

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“les choristes de Vox Luminis livrent de bout en bout une prestation exceptionnelle”

Reviewed at BOZAR: Main hall, Brussels on 24 May 2023

Haydn, Requiem Mass in C minor

Mozart, Mass no. 18 in C minor "Great", K427 (K417a)

Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director, Bass

B'Rock Orchestra

Vox Luminis

Cecilia Bernardini, Leader

Robin Johannsen, Soprano

Sophie Junker, Soprano

Florian Sievers, Tenor

Ghouls, ghosts and woodland wonder: B’Rock at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 25th January

Dutch virtuoso Lucie Horsch plays Baroque recorder – just not how we usually expect it.

****1

René Jacobs confronts acoustical challenges in Dortmund Handel

Mengguang Huang, 12th March

René Jacobs and Sunhae Im tackle Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Dortmund’s acoustically dry Reinoldihaus. Despite challenges, Im’s radiant soprano and B’Rock Orchestra’s basso continuo group shine.

****1

Telemann's Orpheus in Amsterdam: a truly European opera

Nicolas Nguyen, 23rd October

In the hands of B'Rock Orchestra and conductor René Jacobs, Telemann's polyglot opera, once thought lost to time, becomes more than just a curiosity.

****1

Dido and Aeneas reworked as performance art

Cameron Kelsall, 24th April

Though ambitious and occasionally arresting, this revised and expanded take on the Purcell classic suffers from subtraction by addition.

**111

Barocktage opens with a murder: Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio

Laura Servidei, 1st November

Romeo Castellucci’s inspiring and spiritual production lands in Berlin, with a superb cast of Baroque specialists and the B’Rock Orchestra under the baton of René Jacobs.

****1

Irreverence and ennui in De Keersmaeker's Six Brandenburg Concertos

Ivan Talijancic, 7th October

Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker's production of Six Brandenburg Concertos at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City disappoints

**111

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Patrice Lieberman

Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.

Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis et B'Rock Orchestra exceptionnels à Bozar