Veneziano / Hoegstroem / Ensemble Odyssee / Friggi In Officio Defunctorum - Nocturns For The Dead CD

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.

1. Parce Mihi Domine - Various Performers 2. Taedit Aniname Meam Vitae Meae - Various Performers 3. Manus Tuae Fecerunt - Various Performers 4. Responde Mihi - Various Performers 5. Homo Natus de Muliere - Various Performers 6. Qui Mihi Hoc Tribuat - Various Performers 7. Vivace - Ensemble Odyssee 8. Adagio - Ensemble Odyssee 9. Allegro - Ensemble Odyssee 10. Adagio - Ensemble Odyssee 11. Allegro - Ensemble Odyssee 12. Spiritus Meus Attenuabitur - Various Performers 13. Pelli Meae Consumptis Carnibus - Various Performers 14. Quare de Vulva Eduxisti - Various Performers 15. Miserere a 4 - Various Performers