ABOUT THE RECORDING
The CD Zelenka: Officium defunctorum & Requiem won the prestigious Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice award and was chosen as the recording of the month in June 2011. The sample from the CD was also included in the Gramophone Player selection.
Accent, 2010
CONTENTS
Jan Dismas Zelenka
CD I
Officium defunctorum ZWV 47 (1733)
Invitatorium, Lectiones et Responsoria
INVITATORIUM
1 Antiphona & Psalmus Regem cui omnia vivunt
NOCTURNO I
2 Lectio I Parce mihi Domine
3 Responsorium I Credo quod Redemptor
4 Lectio II Tædet animam vitæ meæ
5 Responsorium II Qui Lazarum resuscitasti
6 Lectio III Manus tuae fecerunt
7 Responsorium III Domine quando veneris
NOCTURNO II
8 Lectio IV Responde mihi
9 Responsorium IV Memento mei Domine
10 Lectio V Homo natus de muliere
11 Responsorium V Hei mihi Domine
12 Lectio VI Quis mihi hoc tribuat
13 Responsorium VI Ne recordaris peccata mea
NOCTURNO III
14 Lectio VII Spiritus meus attenuabitur
15 Responsorium VII Peccantem me quottidie
16 Lectio VIII Pelli meæ, cnsumptis carnibus
17 Responsorium VIII Domine secundum actum meum
18 Lectio IX Quare de vulva eduxisti
19 Responsorium IX Libera me Domine
CD II
Requiem in D ZWV 46 (1733)
INTROITUS
1 Requiem æternam
2 Te decet Deus
3 Exaudi Domine – KYRIE
4 Christe eleison
5 Kyrie eleison
SEQUENTIA
6 Dies iræ
7 Quantus tremor
8 Tuba mirum
9 Mors stupebit
10 Liber scriptus
11 Rex tremendæ
12 Recordare
13 Lacrimosa
14 Huic ergo parce
OFFERTORIUM
15 Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex gloriæ
SANCTUS
16 Sanctus
17 Pleni sunt coeli – Hosanna I
18 Benedictus
19 Hosanna in excelsis II
AGNUS DEI
20 Aganus Dei
COMMUNIO
21 Lux æternam
REQUIEM ÆTERNAM
22 Requiem æternam
CAST
Václav Luks | conductor
Hana Blažíková | soprano
Markéta Cukrová | alto
Sébasstian Monti | tenor
Tomáš Král | bass
Marián Krejčík | bass
REVIEWS
Zelenka’s almost painterly work with instrumental valeres and strong color and light contrasts is more reminiscent of Handel than Bach; compositionally, however, it is completely original. The masterful baroque altarpiece has the same effect on the listener as it does on the viewer when viewed up close: it floats in the air, but does not move away from the viewer or the listener. (…) The reconstruction for the purposes of the current recording was carried out by Václav Luks on the basis of existing materials. Its result is compact, the recording is excellent.
Michaela Freeman, Harmony
