Vox Luminis / Lionel Meunier
Handel & Zelenka in full glory
Dates
fri 24 oct 2025 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 10 → 55
duration
1h 40' interval
ca. 20:35
Extra info
introduction Stephan Weytjens / 19:15 / Music Studio
An explosive baroque programme full of dramatic intensity with Vox Luminis
Vox Luminis returns to DE SINGEL, but you have seldom heard them play so boisterously and overwhelmingly. This concert is Baroque music at the height of its capacity: virtuosic, capricious and without a safety net.
Handel’s Dixit Dominus is pure musical swagger. Written by a young, ambitious Handel in Italy, the work is bursting with energy: rapid coloraturas, fierce harmonies, and an immersive intensity that doesn’t let go for a moment. Zelenka’s Missa Paschalis is equally challenging, but in a different way. Unexpected harmonic twists, irregular rhythms, and an almost contrary complexity continually confound the listener.
Conducted by Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis immerses itself wholeheartedly in these two extreme works. Handel and Zelenka do not sound like composers from a distant past here, but like untamed forces that make the Blue Hall vibrate with life. This is not a polished museum piece, but music that breathes, moves, and explodes implacably.
Handel’s Dixit Dominus is pure musical swagger. Written by a young, ambitious Handel in Italy, the work is bursting with energy: rapid coloraturas, fierce harmonies, and an immersive intensity that doesn’t let go for a moment. Zelenka’s Missa Paschalis is equally challenging, but in a different way. Unexpected harmonic twists, irregular rhythms, and an almost contrary complexity continually confound the listener.
Conducted by Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis immerses itself wholeheartedly in these two extreme works. Handel and Zelenka do not sound like composers from a distant past here, but like untamed forces that make the Blue Hall vibrate with life. This is not a polished museum piece, but music that breathes, moves, and explodes implacably.