Cristóbal de Morales - Requiem a 5; Officium defunctorum (De Profundis)

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1. Cristóbal de Morales - Circumdederunt me
2. Cristóbal de Morales - Regem, cui omnia vivunt – Venite, exsultemus
3. Cristóbal de Morales - Parce mihi, Domine
4. Anonymous - Credo quod redemptor meus vivit
5. Cristóbal de Morales - Taedet animam meam
6. Anonymous - Qui Lazarum
7. Cristóbal de Morales - Manus tuae, Domine, fecerunt me
8. Anonymous - Domine, quando veneris
9. Cristóbal de Morales - Missa pro defunctis a 5 "Requiem": I. Introitus
10. Cristóbal de Morales - Missa pro defunctis a 5 "Requiem": II. Kyrie
11. Cristóbal de Morales - Missa pro defunctis a 5 "Requiem": III. Graduale
12. Cristóbal de Morales - Missa pro defunctis a 5 "Requiem": IV. Offertorium
13. Anonymous - Per omnia saecula – Dominus vobiscum – Vere dignum et iustum est
14. Cristóbal de Morales - Missa pro defunctis a 5 "Requiem": V. Sanctus & Benedictus
15. Francisco de Peñalosa - Ave verum corpus
16. Cristóbal de Morales - Missa pro defunctis a 5 "Requiem": VI. Agnus Dei
17. Cristóbal de Morales - Missa pro defunctis a 5 "Requiem": VII. Communio

De Profundis

Eamonn Dougan, conductor

Date: 2025

Label: Hyperion

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De Profundis is a 20-member all-male choir dedicated to Continental Renaissance sacred music. Praised by The Guardian as “ace,” the ensemble performs under leading early music conductors and is especially celebrated in Spain, with frequent festival appearances. In 2022, De Profundis launched an ambitious project to perform and record the complete Masses and Magnificats of Cristóbal de Morales, a central figure of the Spanish Renaissance. Their first recording, Missa Mille regretz & Missa Desilde al cavallero, won a Diapason d’Or. The second volume continues the series with Morales’s five-voice Requiem Mass and the renowned Parce mihi, Domine.

Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500–1553) was one of the three great Spanish composers of the 16th century, alongside Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero. He served as maestro de capilla in Ávila, Toledo, Málaga, and Marchena, but his most influential years were with the papal choir in Rome (1535–45), where he published several collections that spread his reputation across Europe and beyond. Morales composed 21 masses, 16 of them printed in Rome under his supervision in 1544, and was the first Spaniard to set magnificats in all eight modes. His motets, widely admired, influenced contemporaries including Victoria, Guerrero, and Palestrina.

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