Morales: Requiem
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Antiguo monasterio de San Pau del Campo Carrer de Sant Pau 99, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of L'auditori
The requiem for five voices Missa pro defunctis by the Sevillian priest Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553) is a highly unique work. Influenced by the master of polyphony, Josquin Desprez, Morales came to achieve international recognition; one of his contemporaries, Juan Vásquez, said that Morales was the "light of Spain transformed into music.”
One of the finest examples of 16th-century Castilian polyphony, together with the funeral masses by Guerrero and Victoria, it stands out for its ascetism, austerity and drama. The work was sung in 1559 at the mass held in memory of Emperor Carlos V (Carlos I of Castile) in Mexico, and thirty-nine years later, it was performed again in Toledo at the funeral of the emperor’s son, Felipe II of Castile. Hear it performed at the old monastery of San Pau del Campo in Barcelona.
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