Composer: Tomás Luis de Victoria
Performer: Nordic Voices
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHSA0402
Release: 2017
Size: 996 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Quem vidistis, pastores?
02. Ardens est cor meum
03. Congratulamini mihi a 6
04. Vexilla regis, “More Hispano”
05. Tu es Petrus
06. Vidi speciosam
07. Nigra sum sed formosa
08. Salve Regina
09. Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas
10. O Domine Jesu Christe
11. Vadam et circuibo civitatem
The Norwegian six-member a cappella group, Nordic Voices here presents the extraordinary polyphonic music of Tomas Luis de Victoria, a Spanish composer whose music has continued to move people for more than 400 years, crossing geographical, cultural, and even religious barriers. This surround-sound recording comes ten years after a “warm, consistent and moving” (BBC Music) album of Lamentations, which featured pieces by sixteenth-century composers, including Four Lessons by Victoria. Examples of the composer’s exceptional output, characterized by a careful setting of the text and an ability to control texture by a constant grouping and regrouping of different voices, here meet the artistic resourcefulness, versatility, technical precision, and freshness of the young ensemble.