Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories
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TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories
Stile Antico
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 9 April 2018
The office of Tenebrae, from the liturgy of Holy Week, has always fascinated the public and, above all, offered a fertile terrain for composers to exercise their gifts. Such was the case with Victoria, whose exclusively sacred output, nourished by the multiple influences of his years in Rome, offers a place of choice to Tenebrae settings. These Responsories display unparalleled expressive power and amply justify his reputation as the greatest polyphonist of the Spanish Renaissance.
"The beautifully blended voices of Stile Antico approach these 18 expressive, cleverly varied Holy Week pieces, written in Rome by the greatest of Spanish-born Renaissance composers, with a poised devoutness rather than theatricality" Sunday Times
"Stille antico performs these wonders with devotion and real understanding of the Victorian muse, and if one takes the time to listen from beginning to end uninterrupted, the music still has the power to move us and soothe our desperately jaded 21st century souls. Easily recommended, and in great sound, for those needing such a balm." AudAud.com
Tracks:
"Maundy Thursday Responsories
Second and Third Nocturns"
1 Amicus meus
2 Judas mercator
3 Unus ex discipulis meis
4 Eram quasi agnus
5 Una hora
6 Seniores populi
7 Incipit lamentatio Jeremiæ
"Good Friday Responsories
Second and Third Nocturns"
8 Tamquam ad latronem
9 Tenebræ factæ sunt
10 Animam meam dilectam
11 Tradiderunt me
12 Jesum tradidit impius
13 Caligaverunt oculi mei
14 De lamentatione Jeremiæ
"Holy Saturday Responsories
Second and Third Nocturns"
15 Recessit pastor noster
16 O vos omnes
17 Ecce quomodo moritur
18 Astiterunt reges terræ
19 Æstimatus sum
20 Sepulto Domino
21 De lamentatione Jeremiæ Prophetæ
22 Motet O Domine Jesu Christe
