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Tomas Luis de Victoria, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Victoria: The Mystery of the Cross
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Lamentations for Maundy Thursday: Lectio I
2. Lamentations for Maundy Thursday: Lectio II
3. Lamentations for Maundy Thursday: Lectio III
4. Lamentations for Maundy Thursday: Hymn: Vexilla Regis
5. Lamentations for Good Friday: Lectio I
6. Lamentations for Good Friday: Lectio II
7. Lamentations for Good Friday: Lectio III
8. Lamentations for Good Friday: Hymn: Pange Lingua
9. Lamentations for Holy Saturday: Lectio I
10. Lamentations for Holy Saturday: Lectio II
11. Lamentations for Holy Saturday: Lectio III

CD Details

All Artists: Tomas Luis de Victoria, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Title: Victoria: The Mystery of the Cross
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Coro
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 3/15/2005
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Early Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 828021602122, 828021602122

Synopsis

Album Description

"This is what recording should be about ... excellent performances and recorded sound ... beautiful and moving." -GRAMOPHONE Scholar, mystic, priest, singer, organist, and composer - six persons all rolled into one and that is, quite simply, why Victoria was the most outstanding composer of the Spanish Renaissance. His music, highly dramatic and emotional, fully reflects the heartfelt passion with which Victoria wrote for the church. These performances are of new editions, specially commissioned for this series, and thus never before heard on disc. Authoritative liner notes by the eminent musicologist who made the editions.

CD Reviews

Sweet Sixteen, Approaching Middle Age

Giordano Bruno | Wherever I am, I am. | 03/07/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"There is not nearly enough of the music of Tomas Luis de Victoria on CDs, nor of Francisco Guerrero nor Juan Vasquez, nor any of the great Cathedral composers of the Golden Age of Spain, the 16th Century. Thus, on one hand I'm thrilled to see Harry Christophers and The Sixteen undertake this huge recording project, apparently all the motets of Victoria. Unfortunately, however, they're doing it poorly. They used to have some energy in their voices. Their recordings of Handel and Monteverdi were never my ultimate choices but they were worthy contenders. Now they sound more tired than The Tallis Scholars. They seem to equate sanctity with lethargy of tempo. The sum of four or more voices on a part is often less focused, less rich in timbre, than a single voice, and in this performance of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, by Victoria, each voice sounds like a committee."