Victoria: Holy Week in the Sistine Chapel

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their vocal agility and robustness of matching timbres across the range is hugely impressive — Classic FM Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: CHR77345
Label: Christophorus
Length: 60 minutes

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Victoria: Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae (Office for Holy Week)

Work length48:05

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Ensemble Officium
Wilfried Rombach

In Coena Domini, Lecio I: Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae

Track length5:31

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In Coena Domini, Lecio II: Vau. Et Egressus est

Track length4:23

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In Coena Domini, Lecio III: Jod. Manum suam

Track length5:19

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In Passione Domini, Lecio I. Heth. Cogitavit Dominus

Track length5:16

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In Passione Domini, Lecio II. Lamed. Matribus suis

Track length3:56

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In Passione Domini, Lecio III. Aleph. Ego vir

Track length6:05

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In Sabbato Sancto, Lecio I: Heth. Misericordiae Domini

Track length6:05

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In Sabbato Sancto, Lecio II: Aleph. Quomodo obscuratum

Track length5:16

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In Sabbato Sancto, Lecio III: Incipit oratio Jeremiae Prophetae

Track length6:14

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Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus

Work length12:37

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Ensemble Officium
Wilfried Rombach

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Victoria was intensely influenced by Palestrina and his musical circle and his compositions have continued to be performed in the Sistine Chapel up to the present day.

The choral volume 186 of the Fondo Cappella Sistina contains a copy of the early version of the Officium hebdomadae sanctae which Victoria subsequently published in Rome in the year 1585. This publication includes all works composed by Victoria for Holy Week: the nine Lamentations on this recording, the 18 Tenebrae responses, two passions and a series of other liturgical music for Holy Week. In this recording, the Lamentations from the Officium hebdomadae sanctae 1585 are augmented by the verses from this earlier version, thereby providing the first complete recording of all lessons composed by Victoria for Holy Week.

For centuries, the performance of the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri, composed in 1638, provided the climax of the ceremonies in the Sistine Chapel for Holy Week. From the year of its composition up to 1860, this work was performed annually on Wednesday (eve of Maundy Thursday) and Friday (eve of Holy Saturday).

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June 2011

their vocal agility and robustness of matching timbres across the range is hugely impressive

July 2011

The fullness of its sonority is offset by expressive restraint, even austerity; the two terms of the equation do not cancel each other out but are held in balance....On this recording it's the work's monumental qualities that are emphasised...the sense of reverence towards the music is even more palpable.

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