Vox Luminis

Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director

Friday, June 13, 2025 at 8pm
Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA

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Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Music of Carissimi and Förster

Without Giacomo Carissimi, the oratorio might never have existed. The 17^th-century Italian composer and priest was a brilliant free spirit at the time of the counter-reformation and advocated using emotional music to convert the people. His masterly oratorios smuggled the intense expression of opera into spiritual music. Lionel Meunier and Gramophone Award winners Vox Luminis explore Carissimi’s sacred oratorios with his reflections on the transience of worldly ambitions in Vanitas Vanitatum (Vanity of vanities) and the biblical stories of Jephte and Abraham et Isaac alongside Kaspar Förster’s spiritual take on the vanity of vanities.