Artist: Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Album: English Royal Funeral Music
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2013
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 01:02:26
Total Tracks: 14
Total Size: 548 MB

Tracklist:

1. Vox Luminis – Hear My Prayer (02:12)
2. Vox Luminis – The Queen’s Farewell – The Queen’s Farewell (04:31)
3. Vox Luminis – The Queen’s Funeral March, Z. 860 (02:47)
4. Vox Luminis – The First Dirge Anthem: I Am the Resurrection and the Life (05:02)
5. Vox Luminis – The Second Dirge Anthem: Man That Is Born of a Woman (05:31)
6. Vox Luminis – Canzona, Z. 860 (02:24)
7. Vox Luminis – The Third Dirge Anthem: I Heard a Voice from Heaven (01:56)
8. Vox Luminis – Lament and Elegy: Death Hath Deprived Me (03:13)
9. Vox Luminis – Lament and Elegy: A Sad Pavan for These Distracted Times (05:41)
10. Vox Luminis – Burial Sentences: I Am the Resurrection and the Life (07:51)
11. Vox Luminis – O dive custos, Z. 504 (07:35)
12. Vox Luminis – Funeral Sentences: Man That Born of a Woman, Z. 27 (10:40)
13. Vox Luminis – Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences, Z. 50 (02:58)

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We know now that Purcell’s three Funeral Sentences were not written for the funeral of Queen Mary in 1695. Following the tradition of the English court, it was pieces by Thomas Morley, originally written for the funeral of Elizabeth I, that were sung there. Purcell’s only contribution to the ceremony was the composition of two pieces for slide trumpets (March and Canzona), and the anthem in the archaic style Thou knowest, Lord. During the funeral procession to Westminster Abbey, a band of oboes played two marches written by John Paisible and Thomas Tollet. This recording assembles the music composed for the funeral of Queen Mary and that used at the funeral of Elizabeth I in 1603. The programme is completed by Purcell’s sublime a cappella anthems and a moving anthem by Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley. After the success of the recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien, voted Record of the Year by Gramophone magazine, this disc will be one of the major events of spring 2013.