Morales: Music for Philip II

Morales: A Requiem for Philip II

Gabrieli Consort - Paul McCreesh
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Contents:

Officium defunctorum: Invitatorium

1. Antifona: Circumdederunt me
2. Psalm 94: Venite, exultemus Domino

Missa pro Defunctis (1544)

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

Performers: Charles Humphries (countertenor) Robert Harre-Jones (countertenor), Malcolm Smith (countertenor), Andrew Watts (countertenor), Steven Harrold (tenor), Julian Podger (tenor), Gerard O'Beirne (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Robert Evans (baritone), Charles Pott (baritone), Donald Greig (baritone), Henry Wickham (baritone), Simon Grant (bass), Francis Steele (bass), William Lyons (bass dulcian)

Playing time: 75'

Recording date: September 1997 (Northumberland)

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 22/2- (November / December 1998)

This program is a hypothetical reconstruction of the funeral service performed for Philip II in the Cathedral of Toledo in 1598. The main items are the impressive funeral works of Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500-1553), performed with interspersed liturgical chant.

Also included is a concluding motet by Alonso Lobo (c.1555-1617)

The previous Morales recording by the present ensemble:

Morales: Mass for Feast of St. Isidore of Seville

Gabrieli Consort & Players - Paul McCreesh
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