Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward - Francisco Garro: From Fire & Earthquake (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Asperges me
02. Missa Saeculorum (primi toni): I. Kyrie
03. Missa Saeculorum (primi toni): II. Gloria
04. Missa Saeculorum (primi toni): III. Credo
05. Missa Saeculorum (primi toni): IV. Sanctus
06. Missa Saeculorum (primi toni): V. Benedictus
07. Missa Saeculorum (primi toni): VI. Agnus Dei
08. In principio erat verbum
09. Parce mihi, Domine
10. Vidi aquam
11. Maria Magdalena
12. Missa Maria Magdalena: I. Kyrie
13. Missa Maria Magdalena: II. Gloria
14. Missa Maria Magdalena: III. Credo
15. Missa Maria Magdalena: IV. Sanctus
16. Missa Maria Magdalena: V. Benedictus

For many in early seventeenth-century Portugal the period of Spanish rule was a time of anguish; but it was also an age of opportunity. Francisco Garro was a Spaniard who crowned his career at the Royal Chapel in Lisbon when this thriving metropolis boasted a vibrant musical life.

Four centuries after his death, Toby Ward and the expert voices and instrumentalists of Ensemble Pro Victoria triumphantly blow the dust from partbooks that survived political upheavals and the disaster of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, revealing a masterly oeuvre that in its richness and expressivity quite justifies the honour in which Garro was held in his lifetime.