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Music / renæssance -> 1600

Officium defunctorum

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Reviews (4)

BBC music magazine

2012 Christmas

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Anthony Pryer

2012 Christmas

"The 13 voices are as finely balanced and harmonious as you could wish, and throughout the recording there is immaculate tuning and exceptional attention to detail ... For all its virtues however, there is something profesionally poised rather than magical about this disc".

BBC music magazine

2011 June

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Anthony Pryer

2011 June

"Vurdering: BBC Music choral song choice" - "This recording does justice both to the genius of Victoria and to the musicality of Tenebrae".

The gramophone

2012 November

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Fabrice Fitch

2012 November

"Fine as this account of the Requiem undoubtedly is, the series of accompanying motets contains some of the disc's finest singing".

The gramophone

2005 December

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Fabrice Fitch

2005 December

"A satisfying account of the Requiem with fine motet performances a bonus ... Victoria's Requiem of 1605 is one of his most popular works and The Sixteen's new offering ... complementing the voices with a chamber organ and the wonderfully robust-sounding bajón, an early Spanish bassoon ... This differentiates them from their nearest rivals, The Tallis Scholars and Magnificat, both of whom perform the work a cappella".