Officium Defunctorum

Album by Tomás Luis de Victoria & Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe

Officium Defunctorum is a collection of liturgical music — a setting of the Office of the Dead — by Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in 1605. Written near the end of Victoria's career as his final published sacred work, it exemplifies late Renaissance polyphony characterised by austere counterpoint, modal harmony and sombre, text-driven vocal textures suited to the funeral rite.

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  1. 1.
    Officium Defunctorum: Lectio secunda ad matutinam. Taedet animam meam
    3:25
  2. 2.
    Officium Defunctorum: Missa pro defunctis. Introitus
    5:04
  3. 3.
    Officium Defunctorum: Missa pro defunctis. Kyrie
    2:05
  4. 4.
    Officium Defunctorum: Missa pro defunctis. Graduale
    2:57
  5. 5.
    Officium Defunctorum: Missa pro defunctis. Offertorium
    6:10
  6. 6.
    Officium Defunctorum: Missa pro defunctis. Sanctus & Bendictus
    2:43
  7. 7.
    Officium Defunctorum: Missa pro defunctis. Agnus Dei
    2:35
  8. 8.
    Officium Defunctorum: Missa pro defunctis. Communio
    3:24
  9. 9.
    Officium Defunctorum: Motectum. Versa est in luctum cithara mea
    3:17
  10. 10.
    Officium Defunctorum: Absolutio. Libera me
    7:58
  11. 11.
    O Domine Iesu Christe a6: Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae
    2:36
  12. 12.
    Domine, non sum dignus a4: Motecta
    2:52
  13. 13.
    Salve Regina a6: Liber primus
    7:23
  14. 14.
    Vadam et circuibo civitatem a6: Motecta
    7:05

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