Morales: Requiem

Cristóbal de Morales: Officium Defunctorum / Missa Pro Defunctis
La Capella Reial da Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée (Auvidis) « El Siglo de Oro » E 8765 [CD]
Astrée (Naïve) "Musica Iberica " ES 9926 [CD]

Performers:
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jean-Louis Commoretto (counter-tenor), Paolo Costa (counter-tenor), Josep Ma Gregori (counter-tenor), Jean-Yvres Guerry (counter-tenor), Lambert Climent (tenor), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor), Pedro Ormazábal (tenor), Pere Pou (tenor), Josep Cabré (baritone), Jordi Ricart (baritone) Victor Alonso (baritone), Josep Miquel Ramon (baritone), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Joan Puigdellívol (bass)
Hespèrion XX
Jordi Savall (treble viol), Sergi Casademunt (alto viol), Eunice Brandão (alto viol), Sergi Casademunt (tenor viol), Laurence Bonnal (bass viol), Lorenz Duftschmid (bass viol), Alberto Rasi (violone), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornet), Daniel Lasalle (tenor sackbut), Richart Cheetham (alto sackbut), Bernard Fourtet (serpent), Josep Borras (bassoon), Guido Morini (organ)
Jordi Savall, dir.

Recording site and date:
Colegiata del Castillo de Cardona (Cataluña) [09, 11/1991];
Rel.: 1992 (E), 11/30/1999 (ES)

Excerpts:
[4] Fontalis (Auvidis) ES 9902 [CD] Vox Æterna: XIème siècle - XVIIIème siècle
[8] Fontalis (Auvidis) "Portrait" ES 9906 [CD] Offertorium - La Capella Reial de Catalunya
[?: Pie Jesus] Astrée (Auvidis) E 8500 [CD] España - Anthologie de la Musique espagnole - Anthology of Spanish Music
[?: Pie Jesus] Astrée (Auvidis) E 8600 [CDx7] España XVe-XXe - Six siècles de musique espagnole

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 385-156 (september 1992)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500-1553) is usually accorded first place among Spanish composers of the mid-16th century. This disc presents two of his most famous settings, in restrained and somber vocal & instrumental performance.

Other recordings of related programs:

Morales: Requiem / Music for Philip II: Gabrieli Consort - Paul McCreesh
Archiv 457 597
Morales: Missa pro Defunctis / Motets: Laudantes Consort - Guy Janssens
Arsonor 006
Morales: Requiem: Musica Ficta - Raúl Mallavibarrena
Enchiriadis 2002
Morales: Office des Ténèbres: Doulce Mémoire - Denis Raisin Dadre
Naïve Astrée 8878

A few other recordings devoted to Morales:

Morales: Missa Mille regretz / Magnificat: Hilliard Ensemble
Almaviva 0101
Morales: Missa Si bona suscepimus: Tallis Scholars - Peter Phillips
Gimell 033
Morales: Assumption Mass: Orchestra of the Renaissance - Richard Cheetham
Glossa 921404
Music for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor: Chapelle du Roi - Alistair Dixon
Signum 019
Morales: Missa de Beata Virgine: Ensemble Jacques Moderne - Joël Suhubiette
Ligia Digital 020 2102
Morales: Missa de Beata Virgine & Motets: Ensemble Jachet de Mantua
Calliope 9363
Virgo Maria: Morales: Dialogue Motets
Consortium Carissimi - Vittorio Zanon
Gaudeamus 343
Morales: Sacred Music: Freiburger Vokalensemble / Instrumental-ensemble "Ludus venti" Köln - Wolfgang Schäfer
Christophorus 74561
Morales: Missa Queramus cum pastoribus: Westminster Cathedral Choir - James O'Donnell
Hyperion 66635

A related recording by La Capella Reial da Catalunya, of music by Morales' younger contemporary, Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599):

Guerrero: Sacrae Cantiones: La Capella Reial da Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée 8766

And the other recording in this series, devoted to Victoria:

Victoria: Cantica Beatae Virginis: La Capella Reial da Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée 8767

These three recordings (including the present one) have been reissued as a set:

Musica Sacra: Morales / Guerrero / Victoria
La Capella Reial, Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Fontalis 9916

Finally, a couple of recordings devoted to a more obscure Spanish contemporaries, in large-scale settings:

Vásquez: Agenda Defunctorum: Capilla Peñaflorida - Josep Cabré
Almaviva 0122
Escobedo: Missa Philippus Rex Hispaniæ: A Sei Voci / Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse / Choeur Philippus Rex Hispaniæ - Bernard Fabre-Garrus
Astrée 8640

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Todd M. McComb

Morales: Requiem

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Officium Defunctorum

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