La Grande Chapelle
Victoria’s Officium Defunctorum
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Livestream of the concert in the Domkerk, Utrecht on 6 September 2025 at 20:00 hours CEST.
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About this concert
Madrid, 1603. The death of Empress Maria of Austria is not mourned in silence, but commemorated on a grand scale. Her funeral is a carefully orchestrated spectacle, in which grief and power come together in an impressive ritual. The space is decorated with tapestries, emblems, coats of arms and a richly decorated catafalque. At the heart of this theatrical whole: the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria. His Officium defunctorum is a musical mausoleum – quiet and solemn, but at the same time charged with political meaning.
La Grande Chapelle reconstructs this masterpiece with great historical precision, based on sources surrounding the original ceremonies. Four additional works that were not published at the time complete the whole. This creates a unique sound image of one of the most magnificent ceremonies in the history of the Spanish Habsburgs.
Programme
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Plainchant
Domine labia mea aperies
Circumdederunt me
Venite, exsultemus Domino
Parce mihi Domine
Credo quod redemptor -
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Taedet animam meam
1548-1611 -
Plainchant
Qui Lazarum resuscitasti
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa Pro defunctis
Requiem aeternam
Kyrie
Requiem aeternam -
Plainchant
Dies irae
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Tomás Luis de Victoria / Plainchant
Domine Iesu Christe / Hostias et preces
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Plainchant
Praefatium
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa Pro defunctis
Sanctus – Benedictus
Versa est in luctum
Agnus Dei
Lux aeterna
Libera me, Domine
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Schola Antiqua
- Jorge Luis Gómez Rios, Daniel Gómez Ruiz, Luis Fernando Loro, José Martín Delgado, Benigno Rodríguez, Jesús Maria Román, Javier Fuenta Jaram gregoriaans Juan Carlos Asensio choir direction
- La Grande Chapelle
- Axelle Bernage, Raquel Mendes, Marie-Frédérique Girod, Lorena García soprano
- David Sagastume, David Feldman countertenor
- Joan Francesc Folqué, Adriaan de Koster, Jérémie Couleau, Alberto Palacios tenor
- Hugo Oliveira, Romain Bockler bass
- Benny Aghassi dulcian
- Albert Recasens musical direction
About the performers
La Grande Chapelle is a vocal and instrumental early music ensemble with a European outlook. Its main objective is to apply new readings to the great vocal works of the 16th to 18th centuries, with special emphasis on the polychoral productions of the Baroque period. Upon its foundation in 2005, fired by a desire to spread Spain's musical heritage, La Grande Chapelle also set up its own independent record label, Lauda. In 2010 La Grande Chapelle received the inaugural FestClásica (the Spanish Classical Music Association Awards) Prize for its contribution to the performance and recovery of previously unrecorded Spanish music.