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"Václav Luks directs the Officium defunctorum with ample dramatic energy; Collegium 1704’s players and choir perform with lyricism and precision. The extraordinary invitatory sequence has some astonishing dramatic gestures in its orchestral ritornellos, and alto Markéta Cukrová and the excellent choir interleave fluently. (...) A fabulous masterpiece is unveiled."
(David Vickers, Gramophone 4/2011)

Officium defunctorum ZWV 47

Requiem in D ZWV 46 music for funeral ceremony of August II The Strong

Collegium 1704

strings: 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1
2 flutes – 2 oboes – bassoons – chalumeau – 2 trumpets – 2 french horn
organ – theorbe – timpani

Collegium Vocale 1704

16 singers SATB

soloists SATB

Václav Luks – conductor