Every year around Nov. 2 – All Souls’ Day – the Nederlandse Bachvereniging commemorates the departed with the finest baroque music. Conductor Lionel Meunier, artistic director of the lauded Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, chose gems by Purcell, Morley, Fux and Johann Christoph Bach, written for royal funerals. Beautiful soothing, spiritual music to remember the departed.

Each religion has its own dealings with death. For All Souls, Lionel Meunier brings together the Anglican, Catholic and Protestant perspectives on farewells. From the carried English funeral music of Purcell and Morley, written at the passing of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Mary II, through the hopeful works of Bach’s great uncle Johann Christoph Bach, to Fux’s moving Kaiserrequiem, composed for the late Empress Eleonora von Neuburg.