Victoria: Missa Trahe me post te & Other Sacred Music

Featuring

James O'Donnell
Iain Simcock
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Tomás Luis de Victoria

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Compositional Technique

Victoria's 'Salve regina' is a double-choir setting, making full use of contrasts between high and low voices, and between reduced-voice fugal sections and grand full-choir passages.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Victoria adopted a highly critical attitude to his own compositions, constantly revising successive editions of his works.

Compositional Technique

Victoria's style shares Palestrina's liking for smooth melodic lines and carefully worked double counterpoint, but uses more accidentals and subtle harmonic coloration for passionate intensity.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Victoria's musical output was relatively small compared to other major Renaissance composers like Palestrina and Lassus, and he published no secular music.

Composer Biography

Tomás Luis de Victoria, the greatest composer of Spain's 16th-century 'golden age' of polyphonic music, was born in Avila in 1548 and became a choirboy at Avila Cathedral.