I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth – Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth – Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2024)
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In the late 16th century when vocal polyphony was developing into the excesses of the late Italian madrigal and the powerplay of multi-choir writing in Venice, Victoria, in Rome, chose to write his 18 Tenebrae settings with the simplest texture imaginable: four voices with internal sections for just two or three parts. These perfect miniatures force the question: how can so little mean so much? Victoria’s austere yet profoundly moving setting of the Responsories for the services of Tenebrae (shadows) is one of the great classics of Renaissance music. In this new recording sung by solo voices it is restored to the low pitch and voicing intended by the composer. These perfect miniatures are interspersed with nine of Christopher Reid’s heart-rending poems from his 2009 collection and Costa Book of the Year winner, ‘A Scattering’, a moving collection on the dying and death of his wife.

Tracklist:
1-01. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Nocturn II – Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signo (02:59)
1-02. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Nocturn II – Judas mercator pessimus (02:24)
1-03. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Nocturn II – Unus ex discipulis meis tradet me hodie (03:21)
1-04. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Nocturn III – Eram quasi agnus innocens (03:12)
1-05. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Nocturn III – Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum (02:43)
1-06. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday: Nocturn III – Seniores populi consilium fecerunt (04:10)
1-07. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Good Friday: Nocturn II – Tamquam ad latronem (03:23)
1-08. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Good Friday: Nocturn II – Tenebrae factae sunt (03:25)
1-09. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Good Friday: Nocturn II – Animam meam dilectam (06:28)
1-10. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Good Friday: Nocturn III – Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum (02:31)
1-11. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Good Friday: Nocturn III – Jesum tradidit impius summis (02:43)
1-12. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for good Friday: Nocturn III – Caligaverunt oculi mei a fletu meo (05:03)
1-13. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday: Nocturn II – Recessit pastor noster (03:11)
1-14. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday: Nocturn II – O vos omnes (02:19)
1-15. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday: Nocturn II – Ecce quomodo moritur iustus (03:48)
1-16. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday: Nocturn III – Astiterunt reges terrae (02:04)
1-17. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday: Nocturn III – Aestimatus sum (02:12)
1-18. I Fagiolini – Tenebrae Responsories – Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday: Nocturn III – Sepulto Domino (04:04)

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