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The Officium defunctorum by Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in 1605, is one of the masterworks of the musical Renaissance, which still moves us with it's austerity and expressive power. It was written Inchin the style of a swansongInch for the funeral rites of the composer's patroness, the empress Maria of Austria, sister of Philip II and widow of the emperor Maximilian II. For the first time in a recording, La Grande Chapelle and Schola Antiqua place the work in it's liturgical context, restoring the two original days the vigil for the dead and the mass which concludes with the rite of absolution. The funeral rites celebrated in Madrid in 1603 are evoked, by means of respecting the original performing forces, the inclusion of the lection, the responsories and the psalms written by Victoria himself, and the use of plainchant taken from sources of the period. This reading brings us closer in a new way to one of the most important dynastic ceremonies of the Spanish Habsburgs of the beginning of the 17th century. Album Tracks 1. Domine labia mea aperies 2. Deus in adjutorium meum intende (fabordón a 4) 3. Work(s)~Invitatorium. Circumdederunt me / Psalmus 94 Venite, exsultemus Domino 4. Lectio I. Parce mihi Domine 5. Responsorium I. Credo quod redemptor 6. Lectio II. Taedet animam meam 7. Responsorium II. Qui Lazarum resuscitasti 8. Lectio VII. Spiritus meus attenuabitur 9. Responsorium VII. Peccantem me quotidie 10. Work(s)~Antiphona Exsultabunt Domino / Psalmus 50 Miserere mei Deus 11. Work(s)~Antiphona Ego sum resurrectio / Canticum Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel 1. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Introitus Requiem aeternam 2. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Kyrie 3. Officium defunctorum (Missa Pro Defuctis)~Graduale Requiem aeternam 4. Tractus. Absolve, Domine 5. Sequentia. Dies irae 6. Officium defun
