Tag: Tomás Luis de Victoria
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Tomas Luis de Victoria: Easter Week Lamentations & Responsories
“This offer is less stereotyped. Here just the nine Second Nocturn responsories are sung, each group prefaced by Victoria ‘s complementary polyphonic ‘Lamentation’. Whereas the responsories are short and sharp, there’s an elegant breadth and languor in his music for the Lamentations, and the alternating two styles makes an effective contrast. In the responsories, the…
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In Honour of Our Lady
A remarkable recording by one of our most famous choirs, here under the direction of one of England’s best known choirmasters. Three sections of appropriate Gregorian Chant recorded by the same forces on a different occasion are interspersed within the programme.
