Tenebrae, Nigel Short - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Requiem Mass, 1605 (2011)

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Artist: Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Title: Tomás Luis de Victoria: Requiem Mass, 1605
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Signum Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:18:47
Total Size: 361 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Versa est in luctum 5:32
2. Requiem Mass, 1605: Lesson: Taedet anima mea 3:04
3. Requiem Mass, 1605: Introit, Requiem aeternam 6:19
4. Requiem Mass, 1605: Kyrie 5:29
5. Requiem Mass, 1605: Gradual, Requiem aeternam 3:46
6. Requiem Mass, 1605: Offertory, Domine, Jesu Christe 6:45
7. Requiem Mass, 1605: Sanctus and Benedictus 3:26
8. Requiem Mass, 1605: Agnus Dei I 1:08
9. Requiem Mass, 1605: Agnus Dei II 1:38
10. Requiem Mass, 1605: Communion, Lux aeterna 4:06
11. Requiem Mass, 1605: Motet, Versa est in luctum 4:02
12. Requiem Mass, 1605: Responsory, Libera me, Domine 9:42
13. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: De lamentatione 1:10
14. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Heth I 0:53
15. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Misericordiae Domini 1:46
16. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae II: Heth II 0:40
17. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Novi diluculo 1:17
18. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Heth III 0:55
19. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Pars mea Dominus 0:52
20. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Teth I 0:36
21. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Bonus est Dominus 1:20
22. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Teth II 0:33
23. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Bonum est praestolari 1:17
24. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Teth III 0:53
25. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Bonum est viro 1:31
26. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Iod I 1:24
27. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Sedebit solitarius 1:22
28. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Iod II 0:58
29. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Ponet in pulvere 1:10
30. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Iod III 0:53
31. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Dabit percutienti 1:10
32. Lamentations Ieremiae Prophetae: Ierusalem 3:13

Performers:
Tenebrae
Nigel Short

This is avowedly an antihistorical reading of Tomás Luís de Victoria's great Requiem mass of 1605, a work from the end of his life that harnesses smooth Counter-Reformation polyphony to mass settings of great expressive power. There's a stately power to the music that's matched by few other a cappella choral compositions of the Renaissance era, and the British choir Tenebrae, under Nigel Short, exploits its expressive qualities to the hilt. The mass is in six parts, deployed among a choir consisting of eight sopranos, three altos (two male, one female), six tenors, and three basses. This is not far from what listeners of Victoria's time would have heard, albeit with all male voices, but the polyphony is somewhat subordinated to expressive demands; if there's something to be emphasized with a swelling line, Short emphasizes it. This is not to say he goes beyond the boundaries of the style, and it's certainly not to say that the voices of Tenebrae are in any way inadequate; this is small group choral singing of the first order. Sample the Sanctus, especially about a minute in, where the words "pleni sunt coeli" are introduced by a fragment of chant. The rich sound here is gorgeous, and you will either feel that it brings out the absolutely transcendent qualities of Victoria's music, or that there is room for an interpretation that aids the listener in imagining the work's original setting and performance procedures in more detail. In either case, the musicians have received excellent support from Signum's engineering team.

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