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Victoria / Recasen / Asensio- Officium Defunctorum (CD)

SKU: 8435307611147
$29.99
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The Officium defunctorum by Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in 1605, is one of the masterworks of the musical Renaissance, which still moves us with it's austerity and expressive power. It was written "in the style of a swansong" for the funeral rites of the composer's patroness, the empress Maria of Austria, sister of Philip II and widow of the emperor Maximilian II. For the first time in a recording, La Grande Chapelle and Schola Antiqua place the work in it's liturgical context, restoring the two original days: the vigil for the dead and the mass which concludes with the rite of absolution. The funeral rites celebrated in Madrid in 1603 are evoked, by means of respecting the original performing forces, the inclusion of the lection, the responsories and the psalms written by Victoria himself, and the use of plainchant taken from sources of the period. This reading brings us closer in a new way to one of the most important dynastic ceremonies of the Spanish Habsburgs of the beginning of the 17th century.

Tracklist:

  1. Domine labia mea aperies
  2. Deus in adjutorium meum intende (fabordón a 4)
  3. Work(s)~Invitatorium. Circumdederunt me / Psalmus 94: Venite, exsultemus Domino
  4. Lectio I. Parce mihi Domine
  5. Responsorium I. Credo quod redemptor
  6. Lectio II. Taedet animam meam
  7. Responsorium II. Qui Lazarum resuscitasti
  8. Lectio VII. Spiritus meus attenuabitur
  9. Responsorium VII. Peccantem me quotidie
  10. Work(s)~Antiphona: Exsultabunt Domino / Psalmus 50: Miserere mei Deus
  11. Work(s)~Antiphona: Ego sum resurrectio / Canticum: Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel
  12. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Introitus: Requiem aeternam
  13. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Kyrie
  14. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Graduale: Requiem aeternam
  15. Tractus. Absolve, Domine
  16. Sequentia. Dies irae
  17. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Offertorium. Domine Iesu Christe / V/. Hostias et preces
  18. Praefatium
  19. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Sanctus - Benedictus
  20. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~In elevatione (motectum): Versa est in luctum
  21. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Agnus Dei
  22. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Communio. Lux aeterna
  23. Postcommunio. Dominus vobiscum
  24. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Responsorium. Libera me, Domine
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Victoria / Recasen / Asensio- Officium Defunctorum (CD)

SKU: 8435307611147
$29.99

Release Date: 10.09.2020

 
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The Officium defunctorum by Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in 1605, is one of the masterworks of the musical Renaissance, which still moves us with it's austerity and expressive power. It was written "in the style of a swansong" for the funeral rites of the composer's patroness, the empress Maria of Austria, sister of Philip II and widow of the emperor Maximilian II. For the first time in a recording, La Grande Chapelle and Schola Antiqua place the work in it's liturgical context, restoring the two original days: the vigil for the dead and the mass which concludes with the rite of absolution. The funeral rites celebrated in Madrid in 1603 are evoked, by means of respecting the original performing forces, the inclusion of the lection, the responsories and the psalms written by Victoria himself, and the use of plainchant taken from sources of the period. This reading brings us closer in a new way to one of the most important dynastic ceremonies of the Spanish Habsburgs of the beginning of the 17th century.

Tracklist:

  1. Domine labia mea aperies
  2. Deus in adjutorium meum intende (fabordón a 4)
  3. Work(s)~Invitatorium. Circumdederunt me / Psalmus 94: Venite, exsultemus Domino
  4. Lectio I. Parce mihi Domine
  5. Responsorium I. Credo quod redemptor
  6. Lectio II. Taedet animam meam
  7. Responsorium II. Qui Lazarum resuscitasti
  8. Lectio VII. Spiritus meus attenuabitur
  9. Responsorium VII. Peccantem me quotidie
  10. Work(s)~Antiphona: Exsultabunt Domino / Psalmus 50: Miserere mei Deus
  11. Work(s)~Antiphona: Ego sum resurrectio / Canticum: Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel
  12. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Introitus: Requiem aeternam
  13. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Kyrie
  14. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Graduale: Requiem aeternam
  15. Tractus. Absolve, Domine
  16. Sequentia. Dies irae
  17. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Offertorium. Domine Iesu Christe / V/. Hostias et preces
  18. Praefatium
  19. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Sanctus - Benedictus
  20. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~In elevatione (motectum): Versa est in luctum
  21. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Agnus Dei
  22. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Communio. Lux aeterna
  23. Postcommunio. Dominus vobiscum
  24. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Responsorium. Libera me, Domine