Among the many students in search of a good musical education, a certain Gaetano Veneziano moved to Naples, then among the hotbeds of musical life in 17th c. Europe, from his native Apulia at age ten to study in one it's cities four music conservatoires. In addition to a Miserere for 4 voices and a Sinfonia Quarta by his contemporary A. Scarlatti, this Pan Classics release presents three late 17th c. 'In Officio Defunctorum' (part of the normal repertoire of every church and performed every time a nobleman died), the texts being set to music by this imaginative, late-Renaissance Italian composer.

Tracklist:

Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 1: Parce Mihi Domine
Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 2: Taedit Aniname Meam Vitae Meae
Notturno Primo: Lesson No. 3: Manus Tuae Fecerunt
Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 1: Responde Mihi
Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 2: Homo Natus De Muliere
Notturno Secondo: Lesson No. 3: Qui Mihi Hoc Tribuat
Sinfonia No. 4: I. Vivace
Sinfonia No. 4: II. Adagio
Sinfonia No. 4: III. Allegro
Sinfonia No. 4: IV. Adagio
Sinfonia No. 4: V. Allegro
Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 1: Spiritus Meus Attenuabitur
Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 2: Pelli Meae Consumptis Carnibus
Notturno Terzo: Lesson No. 3: Quare De Vulva Eduxisti
Miserere A 4

UPC: 7619990103191
Label: Pan Classics
Release Date: 3.31.15
Format: CD

Veneziano / Hoegstroem / Ensemble Odyssee / Friggi - In Officio Defunctorum - Nocturns for the Dead (CD)