This Missa pro defunctis (Antwerp, 1612) contains:
01. Requiem aeternam
02. Kyrie
03. Si ambulem
04. Dies irae
05. Domine Jesu Christe
06. Sanctus
07. Agnus Dei
08. Lux aeterna
09. Libera me Domine
♫ 01. Requiem aeternam
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♫ 02. Kyrie
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♫ 03. Si ambulem
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♫ 04. Dies irae
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♫ 05. Domine Jesu Christe
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♫ 06. Sanctus
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♫ 07. Agnus Dei
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♫ 08. Lux aeterna
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♫ 09. Libera me Domine
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Schmelzer believes, based on the research of others, that the Requiem played at the funeral of Peter Paul Rubens in 1640 was that written by the Italian composer Orazio Vecchi, published in Antwerp in 1612.
The Requiem is in some ways anomalous, with a polyphonic Dies Irae and pre-Tridentine graduale "Si ambulem" instead of the usual "Requiem aeternam", and a cut down offertorium. Graindelavoix in their performance are relatively restrained by their own standards perhaps sensitive to the nature of the piece. The disc is completed by a number of mass movements also published in Antwerp, "incredible polyphony in the midst of the Calvinist Republic" as Schmelzer describes it. First, the Kyrie, Sanctus & Agnus Dei from George de la Hèle's "Missa Praeter Rerurm Serium" of 1578, a parody of Cipriano de Rore's mass of the same name, itself a parody of Josquin's motet, perhaps not imparting the same kind of portentous and foreboding mood as those earlier works, but equally beautiful, a certain lightness and playfulness in the performance with the vocalists set free from the solemnity of the Requiem. These are followed by two further Agnus Dei (Agni Dei?) from Pedro Ruimonte ("Missa Ave Virgo Sanctissima", 1604) and Duarte Lobo ("Missa Dum Aurora", 1639).