Members of the Austin Baroque Orchestra & Chorus perform "Lux perpetua luceat eis, Domine," the Communion from Spanish composer Cristóbal de Morales's five-voice Missa pro defunctis (Requiem Mass), published in 1544 in Rome. Most Spanish cathedrals employed "ministriles"—musicians who played instruments such as shawm, sackbut, recorder, or cornetto—in addition to singers and organists. While many works of Renaissance polyphony are performed today a cappella, we have added ministriles of our own (winds as well as a consort of viols) to this performance, along with harp, organ, and bass dulcian, all three of which were almost always included.

Recorded at Mission Concepción in San Antonio, TX, on November 7, 2020.

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