Vox Luminis, directed by Lionel Meunier, brings together Requiem, the only two funeral masses Roland de Lassus ever composed.
The five-voice Missa pro defunctis published in Munich in 1589, and the rarer four-voice Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, preserved in manuscript at the Benedictine abbey of St Ulrich and St Afra in Augsburg.
Uniquely for this repertoire, the four-voice setting is transposed down a fifth for low male voices and is heard here with its complete Dies irae sequence, including an additional verse absent from the printed edition.
Built throughout on Gregorian cantus firmi, both works reveal Lassus at his most austere and searching, closing a program that gathers his entire funerary output onto a single recording.
Vox LuminisLionel Meunier, Director
Tracklist
Total time: 01:14:58
1.
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum, LV 963: I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam
05:49
2.
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum, LV 963: II. Kyrie eleison
03:04
3.
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum, LV 963: III. Tractus. Absolve Domine
04:27
4.
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum, LV 963: IV. Offertorium. Domine Jesu Christe
07:01
5.
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum, LV 963: V. Sanctus
03:11
6.
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum, LV 963: VI. Agnus Dei
03:12
7.
Missa pro defunctis quinque vocum, LV 963: VII. Communio. Lux aeterna luceat eis Domine
03:21
8.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam
06:20
9.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: II. Kyrie eleison
03:11
10.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: III. Graduale. Si ambulem in medio umbrae
05:03
11.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: IV. Sequenz. Dies irae, dies illa
13:20
12.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: V. Offertorium. Domine Jesu Christe
05:43
13.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: VI. Sanctus
04:13
14.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: VII. Agnus Dei
03:22
15.
Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, LV 624: VIII. Communio. Lux aeterna luceat eis Domine
03:41
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Vox Luminis, directed by Lionel Meunier, brings together Requiem, the only two funeral masses Roland de Lassus ever composed.
The five-voice Missa pro defunctis published in Munich in 1589, and the rarer four-voice Officium pro omnibus fidelibus defunctis, preserved in manuscript at the Benedictine abbey of St Ulrich and St Afra in Augsburg.
Uniquely for this repertoire, the four-voice setting is transposed down a fifth for low male voices and is heard here with its complete Dies irae sequence, including an additional verse absent from the printed edition.
Built throughout on Gregorian cantus firmi, both works reveal Lassus at his most austere and searching, closing a program that gathers his entire funerary output onto a single recording.
Vox LuminisLionel Meunier, Director