Tomás Luis de Victoria, a Spanish composer, spent twenty years studying in Rome, where he encountered and was influenced by Palestrina.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded live in concert at Christ Church Episcopal, New Haven, on December 9, 2011.
Performer Biography
Simon Carrington, in addition to his vocal career, maintained an active career as a double bass player, including being sub-principal of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Performer Biography
Simon Carrington, the founder of Yale Schola Cantorum, was a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble, The King's Singers, with whom he performed for twenty-five years.
Performer Biography
The Yale Schola Cantorum, a 24-voice chamber choir, was founded in 2003 by Simon Carrington, who also served as its director until 2009.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Christopher Theofanidis's "Messages to Myself" is a collection of four unaccompanied choral works based on poetry that has been personally meaningful to him over the years, including texts by Walt Whitman, Rumi, Amy Kirsten, and William Butler Yeats.
Compositional Technique
Tomás Luis de Victoria's Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater, for two four-voice choirs, unusually derives its musical material from two different pre-existing polyphonic settings of the antiphon, both by Victoria himself.
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