Victoria Requiem

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Officium defunctorum (1605)
Gabrieli Consort - Paul McCreesh
Archiv 447 095

Contents:

  1. Lectio II ad Matutinum: Taedet animam meam

    2. Missa Pro Defunctis

  2. Introitus: Requiem aeternam
  3. Kyrie
  4. Oratio
  5. Epistola
  6. Graduale: Requiem aeternam
  7. Tractus: Absolve, Domine
  8. Sequentia: Dies irae
  9. Evangelium
  10. Offertorium: Domine Iesu Christe
  11. Prefatio
  12. Sanctus
  13. Benedictus
  14. Pater noster
  15. Agnus Dei
  16. Communio: Lux aeterna
  17. Postcommunio

    18.  

  18. Motectum: Versa est in luctum
    Absolutio: Libera me, Domine

Gabrieli Consort:

Richard Bryan, Robert Harre-Jones, Timothy Wilson, David Gould, Malcolm Smith, Andrew Watts, Rodrigo del Pozo, Robert Horn, Tom Phillips, Julian Podger, Donald Grieg, Charles Pott, Angus Smith, Robert Evans, Ben Parry, Henry Wickham, Simon Grant, Richard Savage, Francis Steele, William Lyons (Bajón)

Playing time: 60'

Recording date: November 1994

Nathan Wilkes

Victoria's Requiem (or Officium defunctorum) of 1605 is certainly one of his greatest compositions, and easily one of the masterpieces of the late Renaissance. It exemplifies the restrained yet fluent counterpoint for which Victoria is known.

Some other recordings of this or the 1583 setting:

In Paradisum
Victoria: Officium defunctorum / Palestrina
Hilliard Ensemble
ECM 1653
Victoria: Requiem
Tallis Scholars - Peter Phillips
Gimell 454 912
Victoria: Officium Defunctorum
Magnificat - Philip Cave
Linn 060
Victoria: Requiem
Westminster Cathedral Choir - David Hill
Hyperion 66250
Victoria: Officium Defunctorum
La Stagione Armonica - Guido Balestracci
Symphonia 01190
Victoria: Missa pro defunctis
La Parlement de Musique - Martin Gester
Accord 465 396
Victoria: Requiem
Armonico Consort
Deux-Elles 1112

Finally, a couple of closely related recordings by the present ensemble:

Morales: Requiem / Music for Philip II
Gabrieli Consort - Paul McCreesh
Archiv 457 597
Music for the Duke of Lerma
Gabrieli Consort & Players - Paul McCreesh
DG Archiv 471 694 (2 CDs)

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