Nordic Voices Sing Victoria
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TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
Nordic Voices Sing Victoria
Nordic Voices
[ Chandos Chaconne SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Sunday 30 July 2017
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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.
"This outstanding six-person ensemble from Norway has been performing choral music, ranging from plainchant to modern works commissioned especially for them, over the course of twenty years. They are surely happiest when they are singing with one voice per part as here, for they possess robust individual voices. This Chandos SACD deserves the closest attention and headphones to register the full impact, in terms of both separation and integration, of this exquisite group. The expertly crafted virtual sound-stage positions the listener twenty feet back, facing the half-circle with lower voices to the right, higher to the left." (AudAud June 2017)
Tracks:
Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas
Vexilla Regis
Vidi speciosam
Quem vidistis, pastores?
Salve Regina
O Domine Jesu Christe
Ardens est cor meum
Congratulamini mihi a 6
Nigra sum
Tu es Petrus
Vadam et circuibo civitatem
