Victoria: Requiem/Lobo: Versa Est In Luctum

Victoria: Requiem/Lobo: Versa Est In Luctum

On this CD:

1. Work(s)
Composed by Tomas Luis de Victoria
Performed by Tessa Bonner, Charles Daniels, Simon Davies, Sally Dunkley, Donald Grieg, Robert Harre-Jones, Ruth Holton, Mark Padmore, Deborah Roberts, Nicolas Robertson

2. Versa est in Luctum
Composed by Alonso Lobo
Performed by Tessa Bonner, Charles Daniels, Simon Davies, Sally Dunkley, Donald Grieg, Robert Harre-Jones, Ruth Holton, Mark Padmore, Deborah Roberts, Nicolas Robertson, Francis Steele

Editorial Reviews
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It would be difficult to find more sublime music in all the abundant riches of the Renaissance than you'll hear in the 42 minutes of Victoria's Requiem. And in the disc's final four and one half minutes, Alonso Lobo's "Versa est in luctum" reminds us that there was at least one other highly gifted Spanish composer active at the same time as Victoria. More angular than, for example, the music of William Byrd's masses, the splendid part-writing in Victoria's masterpiece conveys exactly the intended somber, reverent mood. Lobo's work is more easily compared with that of Byrd or Gibbons because of its ingenious interweaving of long lyrical melodic lines throughout the six voice parts. The Tallis Scholars are masters of this repertoire, and they perform in a highly complementary acoustic that lets the sound bloom. --David Vernier

Victoria: Requiem/Lobo: Versa Est In Luctum, Music, Caroline Trevor, Robert Harre-Jones, Donald Greig, Donald Grieg, Francis Steele, Alonso Lobo, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Deborah Roberts, Ruth Holton, Sally Dunkley, Charles Daniels, Nicolas Robertson, Simon Davies, Tessa Bonner, Choral, Classical, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Renaissance Motet

Victoria: Requiem/Lobo: Versa Est In Luctum

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