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Compact Disc CDA66304

£13.99

Recorded in Westminster Cathedral on 8, 9, 10 March 1988
Recording Engineer
TRYGG TRYGGVASON
Recording Producer
BEN TURNER
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producer
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMLXXXIX

Duration: 75'28
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Front illustration: part of the title page of Victoria's Office of Holy Week, 1585

Contents:

    Responsories for Tenebrae (1585)
    Responsoria ad Matutinum in ultimi tridui Maioris Hebdomadae
    Responsories at Matins in Holy Week

    MATINS ON MAUNDY THURSDAY

  1. Responsorium IV: AMICUS MEUS [3'47]
  2. Responsorium V: IUDAS MERCATOR PESSIMUS [2'33]
  3. Responsorium VI: UNUS EX DISCIPULUS MEIS [4'02]
  4. Responsorium VII: ERAM QUASI AGNUS [3'23]
  5. Responsorium VIII: UNA HORA [3'19]
  6. Responsorium IX: SENIORES POPULI [5'04]

    MATINS ON GOOD FRIDAY

  7. Responsorium IV: TAMQUAM AD LATRONEM [3'48]
  8. Responsorium V: TENEBRAE FACTAE SUNT [4'57]
  9. Responsorium VI: ANIMAM MEAM DILECTAM [8'26]
  10. Responsorium VII: TRADIDERUNT ME [2'21]
  11. Responsorium VIII: IESUM TRADIDIT IMPIUS [2'24]
  12. Responsorium IX: CALIGAVERUNT OCULI MEI [7'54]

    MATINS ON HOLY SATURDAY

  13. Responsorium IV: RECESSIT PASTOR NOSTER [3'34]
  14. Responsorium V: O VOS OMNES [3'37]
  15. Responsorium VI: ECCE QUOMODO MORITUR [5'55]
  16. Responsorium VII: ASTITERUNT REGES [1'45]
  17. Responsorium VIII: AESTIMATUS SUM [3'06]
  18. Responsorium IX: SEPULTO DOMINO [2'23]
Sleeve Notes

'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)

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