Synopsis Pre-concert talk at 7:30 PM. Requiems by Victoria and Duarte Lobo La Grande Chapelle Tomás Luis de Victoria's Officium Defunctorum (1548, 1611) is considered one of the culminating works of the European Renaissance and a major expression of Spanish musical mysticism. Composed for the funeral of Empress Maria of Austria at the Monastery of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, the cycle follows the main moments of the funeral rite, from the matins of the vigil to the requiem mass and final absolution, still surprising today for the expressive intensity achieved through extraordinary sobriety.
The second part of the program places this work in dialogue with the eight-voice Missa pro defunctis by Duarte Lobo (c. 1565, 1646), a central figure of early 17th-century Portuguese sacred polyphony. Published in Antwerp in 1621, Lobo's Requiem reveals the continuity of the Iberian polyphonic tradition, developing a broad and solemn writing closely linked to the plainchant of the Office of the Dead, marked by a balance between luminous homophony and restrained counterpoint.
PROGRAM Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548, 1611) Officium Defunctorum (1605) Duarte Lobo (c. 1565, 1646) Missa pro defunctis a eight voices Duarte Lobo Audivi vocem de caelo Duarte Lobo Pater peccavi
ARTISTIC TEAM Musical Direction Albert Recasens La Grande Chapelle
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