Victoria: Psalms & Motets
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Thomás Luis de Victoria Psalms & Motets
Classicprint, CPV015CD (2002)
Yorkshire Bach Choir, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists/dir. Peter Seymour
Tomás Luis de Victoria’s masses and motets are at the same time conservative, in the skilled use of counterpoint and coherent polyphonic texture; and innovative, in the intense and highly mystical interpretation of the text.Victoria’s music reached great fame in its time, especially his masses, and all his works were published in his lifetime. He did not write any secular music. This recording uses new editions based on the part books in the British Library: Missae, Magnificat, motecta, psalmi et alia quam plurima; 3, 4, 8, 9, 12vv (Madrid, 1600).
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
Jeremy West, David Staff – cornetto
Susan Addison, Abigail Newman, Barrie Webb, Philip Priest – sackbut
John Bryan, Andrew Watts – dulzian
David Miller, Theodoros Kitsos – chitarrone
Robert Howarth – organ
Peter Seymour – conductor
- Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (a 8) (1581/1600) Advent
- Psalm: Dixit Dominus (a 8) (1581/1600)
- Motet: O magnum mysterium (a 4) (1572) Circumcision
- Magnificat: Primi toni (a 8) (1600)
- Psalm: Laudate pueri (a 8) (1581/1600)
- Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (a 8) (1581/1600) Purification to Easter
- Psalm: Laetatus sum (a 12) (1583/1600)
- Motet: Versa est in luctum (a 6) (1605) (Requiem motet)
- Marian antiphon: Regina coeli (a 8) (1572/1600) Easter
- Psalm: Nisi Dominus (a 8) (1576/1600)
- Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus (a 8) (1600) Pentecost
- Psalm: Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (a 8) (1581/1600)
- Motet: Duo Seraphim (a 4) (1583) (Responsory at Matins) Trinity
- Psalm: Super flumina Babylonis (a 8) (1576/1600)
- Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (a 8) (1576/1600) Trinity-Advent
- Psalm: Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum (a 8) (1600)
- Sequence: Lauda Sion (a 8) (1585/1600) Corpus Christi
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Published by theodoros on August 14th, 2007
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