The meeting on this disc between the Spain-to-Rome transplant Tomás Luis de Victoria and the small British choir called the Sixteen represents an ideal marriage of performers and musical material. Victoria's a cappella choral music, like that of Palestrina (from whom he likely learned a great deal), exemplifies the ideals of the Catholic Counter Reformation of the late sixteenth century; it is restrained, smoothed-down, not so much simple as perfectly proportioned. Victoria's individual contribution was a generally darker ...
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The meeting on this disc between the Spain-to-Rome transplant Tomás Luis de Victoria and the small British choir called the Sixteen represents an ideal marriage of performers and musical material. Victoria's a cappella choral music, like that of Palestrina (from whom he likely learned a great deal), exemplifies the ideals of the Catholic Counter Reformation of the late sixteenth century; it is restrained, smoothed-down, not so much simple as perfectly proportioned. Victoria's individual contribution was a generally darker hue that is often called expressive but might better be described as reverential; he wrote no secular music at all. This set of Lamentations of Jeremiah, intended for performance on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Easter Week, has an especially hushed quality that is taken to a performance extreme by the Sixteen, a choir made up of singers who are all individual virtuosi. Each of the three sets of three Lamentation verses is rounded out by a hymn. Seldom has quiet choral singing...
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