Johannes Brahms could compose his own ‘liturgy’ for the Deutsches Requiem , as Lutherans do not know a fixed funeral service. Jérôme Lejeune, musicologist and manager of the Ricercar label, and Lionel Meunier, artistic director of Vox Luminis, followed the trail of his choices to some well and lesser-known pages of our core repertoire. Our new recording thus brings together motets by the likes of Christian Geist, Johann Philipp Förtsch, Andreas Hammerschmidt and Johann Hermann Schein, all 17th-century compositions that guided Brahms in his text choices.
