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CDA66304


Recording details: March 1988
Westminster Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Ben Turner
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: December 1989
Total duration: 74 minutes 5 seconds

'These pieces, of tragic magnificence, are performed with intensity and integrity, so that a great recording will now ensure that an incomparable treasure of Christian music will be safely preserved for future generations' (The Good CD Guide)

'Enthusiastically recommended to anyone interested in Renaissance polyphony and everyone else besides' (Gramophone)

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Tenebrae Responsories
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)
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Responsoria ad Matutinum in ultimi tridui Maioris Hebdomadae 'Tenebrae Responsories'
1
Maundy Thursday. Responsory 4: Amicus meus osculi me  [3'47]
2
Maundy Thursday. Responsory 5: Iudas mercator pessimus  [2'33]
3
Maundy Thursday. Responsory 6: Unus ex discipulis meis  [3'19]
4
Maundy Thursday. Responsory 7: Eram quasi agnus innocens  [4'02]
5
Maundy Thursday. Responsory 8: Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum  [3'23]
6
Maundy Thursday. Responsory 9: Seniores populi consilium fecerunt  [5'04]
7
Good Friday. Responsory 4: Tamquam ad latronem existis  [3'48]
8
Good Friday. Responsory 5: Tenebrae factae sunt  [4'57]
9
Good Friday. Responsory 6: Animam meam dilectam  [8'26]
10
Good Friday. Responsory 7: Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum  [2'21]
11
Good Friday. Responsory 8: Iesum tradidit impius summis principibus sacerdotum  [2'24]
12
Good Friday. Responsory 9: Caligaverunt oculi mei a fletu meo  [7'54]
13
Holy Saturday. Responsory 4: Recessit pastor noster  [3'34]
14
Holy Saturday. Responsory 5: O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam  [3'37]
15
Holy Saturday. Responsory 6: Ecce quomodo moritur  [5'55]
16
Holy Saturday. Responsory 7: Astiterunt reges terrae  [1'45]
17
Holy Saturday. Responsory 8: Aestimatus sum  [3'06]
18
Holy Saturday. Responsory 9: Sepulto Domino  [4'10]