Victoria: Officium Defunctorum

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Officium Defunctorum (Madrid, 1605) / Motets: O Domine Iesu Christe a6 - Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae (Rome, 1585); Domine, non sum dignus a4 - Motecta (Rome, 1583); Salve Regina a6 - Liber primus (Venice, 1576); Vadam et circuibo civitatem a6 - Motecta (Venice, 1572)

Tomás Luis de Victoria is definitely one of the most important composers in the music history of Spain. His masterpiece is the 'Officium Defunctorum', published in Madrid in 1605. In this requiem - written for the funeral of Maria of Austria, daughter of Emperor Charles V - the composer reached a mystical intensity of expression. Philippe Herreweghe just loves composers "who know how to build entire worlds with sounds, recognizable from the first notes, profound and full of richness". For him Tomás Luis de Victoria is one of them, "one of the greatest musical minds ever". So it was an obvious choice for Philippe Herreweghe to make a recording of this heavenly 'Officium Defunctorum'. And...of course Collegium Vocale Gent - with its cristal clear sound - is the perfect instrument to perform such music. Looking forward to the first renaissance project of Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent for the label Phi!

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