Philippe Rogier - Laudate dominum (Missa Philippus Rex Hispaniae)

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Philippe Rogier (Arras/Atrecht, 1561-Madrid, 1596)


Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus:
laudate eum in firmamento virtutis ejus.
Laudate eum secundum multitudinem
magnitudinis ejus.
Laudate eum in sono tubae:
laudate eum in psalterio, et cithara.
Laudate eum in tympano, et choro:
laudate eum in chordis, et organo.
Laudate eum
in cymbalis benesonantibus:
laudate eum in cymbalis jubilationis:
omnis spiritus laudet Dominum.




Alabad al Señor en su santuario,
alabadle en su magnifico firmamento.
Alabadle en sus maravillas,
alabadle según la inmensidad de su grandeza.
Alabadle al son de trompetas,
alabadle con el salterio y la cítara.
Alabadle con tambores y danzas,
alabadle al son de las cuerdas y el órgano.
Alabadle con címbalos de buen timbre,
alabadle con címbalos de júbilo;
que todo espíritu alabe al Señor.


Louez le Seigneur dans son sanctuaire.
louez-le au firmament de sa puissance,
louez-le en ses oeuvres puissantes,
louez-le selon l'immensité de sa grandeur.
Louez-le par le son du cor,
louez-le sur la harpe et la cithare,
louez-le par le tambourin et la danse,
louez-le par les cordes et les flûtes,
louez-le sur les cymbales sonores,
louez-le sur les cymbales d'allégresse.
Que tout être vivant loue le Seigneur!


Praise God in his sanctuary,
Praise him in the firmament of his power;
Praise him for his mighty acts,
Praise him according to his excellent greatness,
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet,
Praise him with the psaltery and harp;
Praise him with the timbrel and dance,
Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes.
Praise him with loud cymbals,
Praise him with cymbals of joy.
Let every living thing praise the Lord.



Philippe Rogier was the last Franco-Flemish composer of the renaissance to serve at the Spanish court. He was born in Arras around 1560; first mention of him isn't until 1572 when he was recruited as a choir boy into the service of Spanish monarch Philip II. No known records remain of his education, but as he signed himself as "sacerdos" in his publications, one must conclude that he had been ordained as a priest. In 1584 El Escorial -- an enormous complex containing one of the King's private residences -- was completed, and at the same time Rogier was named assistant to chapel master George de la Hèle; the following year Rogier composed the mass Ave martyr gloriosa and motet In illo tempore in celebration of the marriage of the King's daughter, Catherine Michelle of Spain, to Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. in 1586, de la Hèle passed away, and Rogier acceded to chapel master. Although Rogier's renown didn't expand beyond the borders of Spain, he was granted benefices and prebends in France, his native Flanders and even in Germany, which he held until his untimely death at about age 35 in February 1596.

In his will, Rogier made provision for the publication of five masses, which his assistant Géry de Ghersem undertook in 1599; another three survive, along with 25 motets and a small number of other works. The vast majority of Rogier's output was stored in the library of John IV of Portugal, which was destroyed during the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.


Performers: Ensemble A SEI VOCI
(Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse&Choeur Phillipus Rex Hispaniae)
Dir: Bernard Fabre-Garrus

Images: Flemish painters, 15-16th century