Jan Dismas Zelenka - Officium Defunctorum

Jan Dismas Zelenka - Officium Defunctorum
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Accent | Recorded: 2010 | Released: 2011
Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704 - Vaclav Luks

Jan Dismas Zelenka's music for the funeral rites of Augustus the Strong - Officium defunctorum ZWV 47 (Invitatorium, Nocturno I-III) and Requiem ZWV 46 - reveals the most impressive face of the Baroque theatre of death. The man in the chief role of this spectacle follows the appeal in the 95th psalm of the introductory antiphon of the invitatorium "the King, in whom everything lives, let us worship Him", and bows his head before God and the majesty of death. The sombre atmosphere of the invitatorium, which is characterised by the relentless alternation of the lessons with the responses and the strict counterpoint of the Gregorian Chant, contrasts starkly with the exhilarating splendour and variety of the Requiem. The Requiem Mass is not only funeral music here, but is above all the omen for the resurrection and the apotheosis of the Sovereign. Zelenka takes complete advantage of every possibility which was at his disposal from the court orchestra. Trumpets and horns together with concertante transverse flutes, oboes and bassoons are supplemented by the chalumeau. The Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704 were founded by harpsichordist and conductor Václav Luks in 2005. Their recordings for Arta records (Benda), Supraphon (Zelenka, Reichenauer), and Zig-Zag (Zelenka) have been favourably received in Europe and further afield. The present recording marks the beginning of a long-term cooperation between Collegium 1704/Václav Luks and the label Accent.  

Tracklist

CD1

INVITATORIUM: Antiphona et Psalmus 'Regem cui omnia vivunt'
NOCTURNO I: Lectio I 'Parce mihi Domine'
Responsorium I 'Credo quod Redemptor'
Lectio II 'Taedet animam vitae meae'
Responsorium II 'Qui Lazarum resuscitasti'
Lectio III 'Manus tuae fecerunt'
Responsorium III 'Domine quando veneris'
NOCTURNO II: Lectio IV 'Responde mihi'
Responsorium IV 'Memento mei Domine'
Lectio V 'Homo natus de muliere'
Responsorium V 'Hei mihi Domine'
Lectio VI 'Quis mihi hoc tribuat'
Responsorium VI 'Ne recordaris peccata mea'
NOCTURNO III: Lectio VII 'Spiritus meus attenuabitur'
Responsorium VII 'Peccatem me quottidie'
Lectio VIII 'Pelli meae, consumptis carnibus'
Responsorium VIII 'Domine secundum actun meum'
Lectio IX 'Quare de vulva eduxisti'
Responsorium IX 'Libera me Domine'

CD2

INTROITUS: Requiem aeternam
Te decet Deus
Exaudi Domine - KYRIE
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
SEQUENTIA: Dies irae
Quantus tremor
Tuba mirum
Mors stupebit
Liber scriptus
Rex tremendae
Recordare
Lacrimosa
Huic ergo parce
OFFERTORIUM: Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae
SANCTUS: Sanctus
Pleni sunt coeli - Hosanna I
Benedictus
Hosanna in excelsis II
AGNUS DEI: Agnus dei
COMMUNIO: Lux aeternam
REQUIEM AETERNAM: Requiem aeternam


Booklet was glued inside the digipack, couldn't make scans of it, sorry.