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Track(s) taken from SIGCD248

Versa est in luctum

composer
Officium defunctorum ad matutinum, 1605
author of text
Job; Office of the Dead

Tenebrae, Nigel Short (conductor)
Recording details: November 2010
Various, United Kingdom
Produced by Nicholas Parker & Nigel Short
Engineered by Mike Hatch & Craig Jenkins
Release date: March 2011
Total duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds
 

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Reviews

'Beautifully crafted Victoria—BBC Music Magazine Choral & Song Choice Anthony Pryer gives a warm welcome to Tenebrae's superlative disc … the insight and advocacy of Nigel Short's recording make it outstanding' (BBC Music Magazine & Song Choice)» More
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'The Kyrie from the Requiem Mass of 1605, from Tomás Luis de Victoria and the sound of Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short, who’s sung this music himself many times with King’s Singers and the Tallis Scholars. But there is an intensity, an emotional range, Tenebrae seems to be able to draw on that makes this really special alongside the purity and accuracy we’ve come to expect from this very versatile ensemble. To find ourselves on the jury putting forward two of their recent recordings to the public vote just proved the point, it could have been their disc of Parry’s Songs of Farewell, but it was the Victoria that won the day' (BBC Music Magazine)» More

'Victoria’s Requiem Mass is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of Renaissance choral polyphony, and Tenebrae here exquisitely conveys the flowing relationships between its six voices. The group presents the work with elegant subtlety, allowing the full detail of tonal colouration to shine through unencumbered. The abnegation of worldly miseries in lines such as 'My soul is weary of my life' is echoed in the less well-known but equally absorbing 'Versa est in luctum' ('My harp is turned to mourning') by Alonso Lobo, a complex piece of gorgeous chromatism, in which the sublime soprano tones cascade emotively over the lower counterpoints to remarkable effect' (The Independent)
To accompany his six-voice Requiem for the Empress Maria, Victoria composed a matching funeral motet. Its solemn words come from the biblical book of Job.

from notes by John Milsom © 2013

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