Jan Dismas Zelenka - De Profundis in D minor - ZWV 50

Orchestra: Il Fondamento. Conductor: Paul Dombrecht Soloists: Peter de Groot (A), Ian Honeyman (T), Peter Krooij (B), Dirk Snellings (B), Lieven Termont (B). Recorded: 1998 A wonderfully powerful piece of music by the Czech master, written in 1724 as a part of a memorial service to his father, who was an organist and schoolmaster in Zelenka’s home village of Louňovice pod Blaníkem. Sadly, this is the only known surviving section of the tribute. It centres on Psalm 130 and concludes with ’Requiem Æternam“: De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine; Domine, exaudi vocem meam. Fiant aures tuæ intendentes in vocem deprecationis meæ. Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine, Domine, quis sustinebit? Quia apud te propitiatio est; et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine. Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus: Speravit anima mea in Domino. A custodia matutina usque ad noctem, speret Israël in Domino. Quia apud Dominum misericordia, et copios