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Tenebrae Responsories
Tomás Luis de Victoria

Tenebrae

Tenebrae Responsories

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212034422
Catnr: SIGCD 344
Release date: 01 September 2013
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212034422
Catalogue number
SIGCD 344
Release date
01 September 2013
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

Tenebrae return to the sublime music of Tomás Luis de Victoria with this recording of his timeless Tenebrae Responsories. The works mix the words of the Gospels with other texts commenting on collective suffering written around the 4th century, and would traditionally have been performed as part of a moving service in which candles are slowly extinguished to mark the progress and suffering of Christ that forms the Passion story.

"The award-winnning choir Tenebrae and director Nigel Short blend their passion for singing as if in a large cathedral choir with the precision of a chamber ensemble, creating a glorious sound that combines both power and intimacy. Recommended." - Cross Rhymthas, October 2014
Krachtige en intieme uitvoering van De Victoria
Het professionele koor Tenebrae keert terug naar de sublieme muziek van Tomás Luis de Victoria met deze opname van zijn tijdloze Responsoria voor Tenebrae, de avonddienst in de Katholieke Kerk op de laatste drie dagen van de Goede Week. De werken combineren de woorden van het Evangelie met andere teksten die commentaar leveren op gezamenlijk lijden, die rond de 4e eeuw geschreven zijn. De muziek zou traditioneel zijn uitgevoerd als deel van een ontroerende dienst waarin kaarsen langzaam gedoofd worden om de voortgang van het lijden van Christus aan te geven.

Artist(s)

Tenebrae

Described as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision.   Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae performs at major festivals and venues across the globe, including the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Rheingau Musik Festival and Sydney Festival. The choir has earned international acclaim for its interpretations of choral works from the Renaissance through to contemporary masterpieces, and it regularly commissions new music. It has enjoyed collaborations with some of the UK’s leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia.    Tenebrae has won two BBC Music Magazine Awards and an Edison Classical Music Award,...
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Described as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision. Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae performs at major festivals and venues across the globe, including the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Rheingau Musik Festival and Sydney Festival. The choir has earned international acclaim for its interpretations of choral works from the Renaissance through to contemporary masterpieces, and it regularly commissions new music. It has enjoyed collaborations with some of the UK’s leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music and Britten Sinfonia. Tenebrae has won two BBC Music Magazine Awards and an Edison Classical Music Award, an Opus Klassik Award, and earned a Grammy nomination for its album ‘Music of the Spheres’. The ensemble also undertakes regular session work, most recently contributing the vocals for the soundtrack to blockbuster sci-fi movie Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). Alongside its performance and recording schedule, Tenebrae runs a thriving Learning & Connection programme, through which it works with hundreds of children, young people and amateur singers each year.


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Nigel Short (conductor)

Composer(s)

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Tomás Luis de Victoria was born as the seventh child to a family of eleven chilren, in Madrid. He received his first music lessons as a choirboy, and after his voice change at puberty he was sent to Rome to attend a different choir. There he undoubtedly got to know the renowned Palestrina, perhaps he was even Palestrina's student. He soon established a flourishing career as a musician and composer, until 1587 when he joined a monastery and composed music for them. The working conditions were so favourable that he was never tempted to accept a new offer for a better position. As a composer, De Victoria exclusively focused on the Latin liturgy: he composed many missas, magnificats and motets. For...
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Tomás Luis de Victoria was born as the seventh child to a family of eleven chilren, in Madrid. He received his first music lessons as a choirboy, and after his voice change at puberty he was sent to Rome to attend a different choir. There he undoubtedly got to know the renowned Palestrina, perhaps he was even Palestrina's student. He soon established a flourishing career as a musician and composer, until 1587 when he joined a monastery and composed music for them. The working conditions were so favourable that he was never tempted to accept a new offer for a better position.
As a composer, De Victoria exclusively focused on the Latin liturgy: he composed many missas, magnificats and motets. For now his gloomy music, such as his Requiem and his lamentations for the Holy Week, remains the most popular. Because of this, De Victoria is often unfairly portrayed as a somber romantic, but he didn't appear to be a worrier at all! And if you listen closely, you can hear the musical joy in his music


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01.
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn II: : Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signa
03:01
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
02.
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn II: : Iudas mercator pessimus
02:24
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
03.
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn II: Iudas mercator pessimus: Unus ex discipulis meis tradet me hodie
04:07
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
04.
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn III:: Eram quasi agnus innocens
03:31
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
05.
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn III:: Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum
03:05
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
06.
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn III:: Seniores populi consilium fecerunt
05:43
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
07.
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn II:: Tamquam ad latronem existis
03:42
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
08.
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn II:: Tenebrae factae sunt
04:22
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
09.
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn II:: Animam meam dilectam
08:14
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
10.
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn III:: Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum
02:43
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
11.
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn III:: lesum tradidit impius summis
02:55
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
12.
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn III:: Caligaverunt oculi mei
06:32
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
13.
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn II:: Recessit pastor noster
03:31
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
14.
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn II:: O vos omnes
03:04
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
15.
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn II:: Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
05:29
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
16.
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn III:: Astiterunt reges terrae
02:10
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
17.
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn III:: Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus
02:44
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
18.
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn III:: Sepulto Domino
04:41
(Tomás Luis de Victoria)
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