CD, Victoria (composer)
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Victoria - Missa Gaudeamus
Recommendeda liturgical sequence, with organ works by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Thomas Wilson (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin
An elaborate musical mosaic, the appeal of which owes much to the atmospheric depths of the Westminster acoustic, beautifully captured on this recording —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2009
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This is likely to become one of your most cherished discs. It's notable for its spacious depth of sound, volatile unpredictability of interpretation, and above all the soaring sostenuto of the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Short finds a musical dramaturgy to match that of the text. The Requiem is written for six voices, but this choir of 20 never seems lumbering or unbalanced. They are perfectly tuned (listen... —
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Building a Library, May 2011, Featured
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Choral Award Winner
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The Schola may be the Brompton Oratory’s parish choir but they are also a school ensemble whose back lines are made up of boys aged 18 and under, with the support of just six adult lay clerks.... —
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Victoria: Requiem 1605 'Officium defunctorum'
RecommendedChoir of Westminster Cathedral, David Hill (Master of the Music)
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Building a Library, October 2005, First Choice
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Unaccompanied, the Monteverdi Choir goes back to its roots in a programme which harnesses scholarship and singing of breathtaking beauty. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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this recording is the most nuanced and telling available. First there is the sheer sound of the ensemble: beautifully balanced and tuned with, at times (Caligaverunt oculi), an almost glassy... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Santiago a cappella
RecommendedRecording location: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
A wonderful collection brilliantly sung. Only Mariam Matrem is a true pilgrim piece, but others (Lobo's Versa est) are a revelation. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2010
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Amarae Morti
Lamentations and motets by Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot & Victoria
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips
Phillips pounces on all the details that matter: dissonances crunch satisfactorily, imitative points are tightly nested, and light streams through thick homophony…The choir is fresh-sounding,... —
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