Title: In Officio Defunctorum - Nocturns for the Dead Artist: Veneziano / Hoegstroem / Ensemble Odyssee / Friggi Label: Pan Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 7619990103191 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2015-03-31 Number of Discs: 1
Among the many students in search of a good musical education, a certain Gaetano Veneziano moved to Naples, then among the hotbeds of musical life in 17th c. Europe, from his native Apulia at age ten to study in one it's cities four music conservatoires. In addition to a Miserere for 4 voices and a Sinfonia Quarta by his contemporary A. Scarlatti, this Pan Classics release presents three late 17th c. 'In Officio Defunctorum' (part of the normal repertoire of every church and performed every time a nobleman died), the texts being set to music by this imaginative, late-Renaissance Italian composer.
Tracks: 1.1 Parce Mihi Domine - Various Performers 1.2 Taedit Aniname Meam Vitae Meae - Various Performers 1.3 Manus Tuae Fecerunt - Various Performers 1.4 Responde Mihi - Various Performers 1.5 Homo Natus de Muliere - Various Performers 1.6 Qui Mihi Hoc Tribuat - Various Performers 1.7 Vivace - Ensemble Odyssee 1.8 Adagio - Ensemble Odyssee 1.9 Allegro - Ensemble Odyssee 1.10 Adagio - Ensemble Odyssee 1.11 Allegro - Ensemble Odyssee 1.12 Spiritus Meus Attenuabitur - Various Performers 1.13 Pelli Meae Consumptis Carnibus - Various Performers 1.14 Quare de Vulva Eduxisti - Various Performers 1.15 Miserere a 4 - Various Performers
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