Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Officium Defunctorum


An hour-long live recording of Jan Dismas Zelenka's setting of the Office of the Dead:



Those who would like to hear the different parts of the Officium Defunctorum on separate videos can go here.

I have nothing to add, except that as much as I enjoy sacred music from the Baroque, I have a hard time listening to it in an actual liturgical setting.

H/T: The Western Confucian

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