Vásquez: Agenda Defunctorum

Vásquez: Agenda Defunctorum
Capilla Peñaflorida - Josep Cabré
Almaviva 0122

Contents:

    Ad matutinum

  1. Invitatorium: Regem cui omnia
  2. Antiphona: Dirige, Domine
  3. Antiphona: Convertere Domine
  4. Antiphona: Nequando rapiat
  5. Versiculum: A porta inferi
  6. Lectio I: Parce mihi Domine
  7. Lectio II: Taedet animam meam vitae meae
  8. Lectio III: Manus tuae fecerunt me

    9. Ad laudes

  9. Antiphona: Ego sum resurrectio et vita
    Cantium Zachariae: Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel

    10. Ad missam

  10. Introitus: Requiem aeternam
    Psalmus: Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion
  11. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison
  12. Graduale: Requiem aeternam
    Versus: In memoriam aeternam. Requiem
  13. Tractus: Sicut cervus
  14. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe
  15. Sanctus. Benedictus.
  16. Motectum: Sana me Domine
  17. Agnus Dei
  18. Antiphona: Absolve, Domine

    19. Absolutio pro defunctis

  19. Responsorium: Requiescant in pace
  20. Amen.

Performers: Isabel Álvarez (soprano), Karmele Iriarte (soprano), M. Jesús Ugalde (soprano), David Azurza (alto), Mirari Pérez (alto), David Sagastume (alto), Jon Bagüés (tenor), Josep Benet (tenor), Peio Ormazábal (tenor), Nicolás Basarrate (bass), Aitor Sáiz de Cortázar (bass), Gonzalo Ubani (bass), Fernando Sánchez (dulcian), Loreto Fernández Imaz (organ)

Playing time: 73'

Recording date: June 1996 (Seville)

Juan Vasquez (c.1510-1560) was from Estremadura, and served as Master of the Chapel of the Cathedral of Badajoz. The present Office for the Dead is very highly regarded for its contemplative qualities, standing well alongside Vásquez' elegantly simple songs which have more reputation today. The present service seems to follow the example of Morales closely, and indeed both were written for Seville, the present example in 1550.

A couple of other recordings devoted to Vasquez:

Vasquez: Ex Agenda Defunctorum Officium
Coro de Cámara de la Universidad de Salamanca - Bernardo García-Bernalt
Radio Nacional de España 640036
Si no os hubiera mirado
Juan Vasquez - Sevilla, 1560
Los Afectos Diversos - Nacho Rodríguez
iTinerant Records 003

Other recordings by this ensemble:

Salve Reyna: Música Española
Hidalgos: Misa a 5 / Cererols / Patino / Garcia de Salazar
Capilla Peñaflorida - Josep Cabré
Glissando 005
Guerrero: Misa "Puer natus est" / Canciones y Villanescas Espirituales
Capilla Peñaflorida - Josep Cabré
Almaviva 0126
Anchieta: Missa Sine Nomine / Salve Regina
Capilla Peñaflorida / Ministriles de Marsias - Josep Cabré
Naxos 8.555772

A related program by a more obscure contemporary, Gines Perez (c.1548-1600):

Perez: Officium Defunctorum
Victoria Musicae - Gil Tarrega
La mà de guido / Ars Harmonica 081

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Todd M. McComb