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Gesualdo: Responsories for Easter Week; Victoria: Lamentations / Tenebrae

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2013-03-12

Works: Carlo Gesualdo: Responsories (9), Sabbato Sancto; Miserere Mei, Deus, motet for 6 voices, W. 7/92; Tomás Luis de Victoria: Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae
Conductors: Short, Nigel
Ensemble: ; Tenebrae

2013 marks the 400th anniversary of Gesualdo's death. One of the most visionary composers of his time, he wrote the Tenebrae Responsories for Easter Week,...continue...
Recording information: St. Alban the Martyr Church, London, England (09/2012)....continue...

Tomas de Luis Victoria: Requiem Mass, 1605

1 CD / Signum UK / 2011-05-04

Works: Alonso Lobo: Versa est in Luctum; Lamentationes Ieremiae Prophetae; Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa Pro defunctis II, for 6 voices
Conductors: Short, Nigel

"Tenebrae here exquisitely conveys the the flowing relationships between its six voices...The group presents the work with elegant subtlety, allowing the full detail of tonal...continue...
Recording information: All Hallows, Gospel Oak and St Albans, Holborn (11/01/2010-11/04/2010)....continue...