This is a definitive modern Victoria Requiem, performed by a choir who relish its musical and expressive challenges.
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Victoria: Requiem Mass, 1605
Tenebrae present its BBC Music Magazine award-winning recording of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s requiem mass for six voices, written in 1603 and published in 1605. This masterpiece is one of a handful of large-scale works which enjoys mainstream appeal in the 21st century. For many, it represents what Renaissance polyphony is, what it sounds and feels like, and how expressive it can be. The disc also features two well-known works by Victoria’s contemporary Alonso Lobo.
- Release Date: 28 March 2011
- Record Label: Signum Classics
- Catalogue Number: SIGCD248
- Location of Recording: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London
- Total Running Time: 01:19:04
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| Buy | # | Title | Composer | Duration | Price | Listen |
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| 1 | Versa est in luctum | Alonso Lobo | 05:32 | £ | Listen | |
| 2 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Lesson: Taedet anima mea | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 03:04 | £ | Listen | |
| 3 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Introit: Requiem aeternam | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 06:19 | £ | Listen | |
| 4 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Kyrie | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 05:29 | £ | Listen | |
| 5 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Gradual: Requiem aeternam | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 03:46 | £ | Listen | |
| 6 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Offertory: Domine, Jesu Christe | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 06:45 | £ | Listen | |
| 7 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Sanctus & Benedictus | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 03:26 | £ | Listen | |
| 8 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Agnus Dei I | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 01:08 | £ | Listen | |
| 9 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Agnus Dei II | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 01:38 | £ | Listen | |
| 10 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Communion: Lux aeterna | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 04:06 | £ | Listen | |
| 11 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Motet: Versa est in luctum | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 04:02 | £ | Listen | |
| 12 | Requiem Mass, 1605: Responsory: Libera me, Domine | Tomás Luis de Victoria | 09:42 | £ | Listen | |
| 13 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: De lamentatione | Alonso Lobo | 01:10 | £ | Listen | |
| 14 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Heth | Alonso Lobo | 00:53 | £ | Listen | |
| 15 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Misericordiae Domini | Alonso Lobo | 01:46 | £ | Listen | |
| 16 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Heth | Alonso Lobo | 00:40 | £ | Listen | |
| 17 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Novi diluculo | Alonso Lobo | 01:17 | £ | Listen | |
| 18 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Heth | Alonso Lobo | 00:55 | £ | Listen | |
| 19 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Pars mea Dominus | Alonso Lobo | 00:52 | £ | Listen | |
| 20 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Teth | Alonso Lobo | 00:36 | £ | Listen | |
| 21 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Bonus est Dominus | Alonso Lobo | 01:20 | £ | Listen | |
| 22 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Teth | Alonso Lobo | 00:33 | £ | Listen | |
| 23 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Bonum est praestolari | Alonso Lobo | 01:17 | £ | Listen | |
| 24 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Teth | Alonso Lobo | 00:53 | £ | Listen | |
| 25 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Bonum est viro | Alonso Lobo | 01:31 | £ | Listen | |
| 26 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Iod | Alonso Lobo | 01:24 | £ | Listen | |
| 27 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Sedebit solitarius | Alonso Lobo | 01:22 | £ | Listen | |
| 28 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Iod | Alonso Lobo | 00:58 | £ | Listen | |
| 29 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Ponet in pulvere | Alonso Lobo | 01:10 | £ | Listen | |
| 30 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Iod | Alonso Lobo | 00:53 | £ | Listen | |
| 31 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Dabit percutienti | Alonso Lobo | 01:10 | £ | Listen | |
| 32 | Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Ierusalem | Alonso Lobo | 03:13 | £ | Listen |
This is a definitive modern Victoria Requiem, performed by a choir who relish its musical and expressive challenges.
Classic FM
The Requiem is written for six voices, but this choir of 20 never seems lumbering or unbalanced. They are perfectly tuned… This recording does justice both to the genius of Victoria and to the musicality of Tenebrae
BBC Music Magazine
a lovely recording – transparent, tranquil, and heartfelt: it’s a version I can listen to again and again.
John Rutter, BBC Music Magazine
there is an intensity, an emotional range,Tenebrae seems to be able to draw on that makes this really special alongside the purity and accuracy we’ve come to expect from this very versatile ensemble.
John Rutter
Tenebrae’s performance, directed by Nigel Short, is gently sustained, immaculately balanced and wrapped in a luminous acoustic.
The Financial Times
The Requiem is written for six voices, but this choir of 20 never seems lumbering or unbalanced. They are perfectly tuned (listen to the exquisite poise of the Agnus Dei), and one is rarely aware of intrusive individual singers.
Anthony Pryer
a ravishingly beautiful performance that stills by heart and sends shivers down my spine…
Andrew McGregor, BBC Radio 3 CD Review
Tenebrae applies its customary sensibility and expressive power to one of the great cornerstones of the choral repertoire. Beautifully recorded with just the right amount of resonance…Victoria called on all his imaginative resources in this Requiem, and Tenebrae interprets them magnificently.
The Daily Telegraph
Tenebrae here exquisitely conveys the the flowing relationships between its six voices…The group presents the work with elegant subtlety, allowing the full detail of tonal colouration to shine through unencumbered.
The Independent
Winner: BBC Music Magazine ‘Best Choral Performance’ Award (2012)
BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice (2011)
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