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Track(s) taken from CDA66850

O quam gloriosum

composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
4vv SATB; from Motecta (1572)
author of text
Anonymous - liturgical
Magnificat Antiphon at Second Vespers on the Feast of All Saints

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)
Recording details: June 1995
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: February 1996
Total duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds

Cover artwork: The Coronation of the Virgin. Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (d1455)
 

Other recordings available for download

The London Oratory Schola Cantorum, Charles Cole (conductor)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)
Clare College Choir Cambridge, Timothy Brown (conductor)
The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
The Queen's Six

Reviews

‘The answer to many prayers; a blockbusting survey of choral masterpieces performed by a choir of exceptional calibre’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘For anyone eager to sample varied music from the Golden Age of polyphony this is a perfect disc’ (Classic CD)

‘If ever a programme was right up a choir's street, then this is it! From the fanfare-like opening of Exultate Deo and its soul-mates by Viadana, Gabrieli, Byrd and Monteverdi, through the linear beauties of Ave verum corpus (as set by Byrd and Philips) and Parsons' Ave Maria, the imploring devotion of Lotti's incomparable Crucifixus and the serenity of Tallis's O nata lux, all is brought glowingly alive. A real joy’ (Organists' Review)
O quam gloriosum, a motet for All Saints, was written during Victoria’s time in Rome, when he was organist at the Aragonese church, Santa Maria di Monserrato. Famed for its verve and drive, this popular motet’s unrelenting energy pauses only briefly at ‘amicti stolis albis’ as the righteous are clothed for heaven.

from notes by Charles Cole © 2020

Other albums featuring this work

Blessed spirit
Clare College Choir Cambridge, Timothy Brown (conductor)
COLCD127Download only
Journeys to the New World
The Queen's Six
Studio Master: SIGCD626Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
Pilgrimage to Santiago
The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG701Download only
Sacred treasures of Spain
The London Oratory Schola Cantorum, Charles Cole (conductor)
Studio Master: CDA68359Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
Victoria: Ave maris stella & O quam gloriosum
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)
CDA66114

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