La Grande Chapelle
Madrid, 1603. The death of Empress Maria of Austria is not mourned in silence, but commemorated on a grand scale. Her funeral is a carefully orchestrated spectacle, in which grief and power come together in an impressive ritual. The space is decorated with tapestries, emblems, coats of arms and a richly decorated catafalque. At the heart of this theatrical whole: the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria. His Officium defunctorum is a musical mausoleum – quiet and solemn, but at the same time charged with political meaning.
La Grande Chapelle reconstructs this masterpiece with great historical precision, based on sources surrounding the original ceremonies. Four additional works that were not published at the time complete the whole. This creates a unique sound image of one of the most magnificent ceremonies in the history of the Spanish Habsburgs.
Programme
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Plainchant
Domine labia mea aperies
Circumdederunt me
Venite, exsultemus Domino -
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Taedet animam meam
1548-1611 -
Plainchant
Qui Lazarum resuscitasti
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa Pro defunctis
Requiem aeternam
Kyrie
Requiem aeternam -
Plainchant
Dies irae
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Tomás Luis de Victoria / Plainchant
Domine Iesu Christe / Hostias et preces
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Plainchant
Praefatium
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa Pro defunctis
Sanctus – Benedictus
Versa est in luctum
Agnus Dei
Lux aeterna
Libera me, Domine
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Schola Antiqua
- La Grande Chapelle
- Albert Recasens musical direction
