Credits:

Various Artists

Description:

New Grand Lavois! Orazio Vecchi's Requiem! Bjorn Schmelzer is a musicologist and renowned authority on folk music in Belgium, a country of great antique music. Schmelzer leads the multinational elite group Grand Lavois of Antwerp. Schmelzer & Grand Lavois, who made a big splash with their recording of Guillaume de Machaut's masterpiece "Notre Dame Mass" (GCDP 32110), will sing a requiem by Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605), an Italian Renaissance musician known as a composer of madrigal comedies. Vecchi's Requiem (Mass for the Dead). Vecchi's Requiem is connected with De la Erle, Ruimonte, Duarte Lobo's Agnus Dei, etc., and represents the funeral music of the Flemish painter Pieter Paul Rubens. The uncompromising vocal ensemble depicts various aspects of the Italian Renaissance and Flemish Baroque, music and painting. Tokyo M-Plus

Tracklisting:

1.Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam (a 8)
2.Missa pro defunctis: Kyrie (a 8)
3.Missa pro defunctis: Si ambulem (a 8)
4.Missa pro defunctis: Dies irae (a 4 & 8)
5.Missa pro defunctis: Domine Jesu Christe (a 8)
6.Missa pro defunctis: Sanctus (a 8)
7.Missa pro defunctis: Agnus Dei (a 8)
8.Missa pro defunctis: Lux aeterna (a 8)
9.Libera me Domine (a 8)
10.Missa Praeter rerum seriem: Kyrie (a 6)
11.Missa Praeter rerum seriem: Sanctus (a 6)
12.Missa Praeter rerum seriem: Agnus Dei (a 6 & 7)
13.Missae Ave Virgo Sanctissima: Agnus Dei (a 5 & 6)
14.Sissa Dum auror: Agnus Dei (a 4&6)