Officium Defunctorum
VICTORIA Tomás Luis de (1548-1611)
Collegium Vocale Gent - Philippe Herreweghe (Dir)
Label : PHI
Artikelnummer: LPH005
1 CD Spielzeit : 059:34
CHF 22.50
Tomás Luis de Victoria is definitely one of the most important composers in the music history of Spain. His masterpiece is the 'Officium Defunctorum', published in Madrid in 1605. In this Requiem - written for the funeral of Maria of Austria, daughter of Emperor Charles V - the composer reached a mystical intensity of expression. Philippe Herreweghe just loves composers "who know how to build entire worlds with sounds, recognisable from the first notes, profound and full of richness".