Veneziano / Hoegstroem / Ensemble Odyssee / Friggi- In Officio Defunctorum - Nocturns for the Dead
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.
Tracklist:
- Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 1: Parce Mihi Domine
- Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 2: Taedit Aniname Meam Vitae Meae
- Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 3: Manus Tuae Fecerunt
- Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 1: Responde Mihi
- Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 2: Homo Natus De Muliere
- Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 3: Qui Mihi Hoc Tribuat
- Sinfonia No. 4: I. Vivace
- Sinfonia No. 4: II. Adagio
- Sinfonia No. 4: III. Allegro
- Sinfonia No. 4: IV. Adagio
- Sinfonia No. 4: V. Allegro
- Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 1: Spiritus Meus Attenuabitur
- Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 2: Pelli Meae Consumptis Carnibus
- Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 3: Quare De Vulva Eduxisti
- Miserere A 4
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.
Tracklist:
- Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 1: Parce Mihi Domine
- Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 2: Taedit Aniname Meam Vitae Meae
- Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 3: Manus Tuae Fecerunt
- Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 1: Responde Mihi
- Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 2: Homo Natus De Muliere
- Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 3: Qui Mihi Hoc Tribuat
- Sinfonia No. 4: I. Vivace
- Sinfonia No. 4: II. Adagio
- Sinfonia No. 4: III. Allegro
- Sinfonia No. 4: IV. Adagio
- Sinfonia No. 4: V. Allegro
- Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 1: Spiritus Meus Attenuabitur
- Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 2: Pelli Meae Consumptis Carnibus
- Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 3: Quare De Vulva Eduxisti
- Miserere A 4