Victoria: Cantica Beatae Virginis

Tomás Luis de Victoria: Cantica Beatae Virginis
La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall, dir.
Astrée (Auvidis) E 8767 [CD]
Astrée (Naïve) "Musica Iberica" ES 9975 [CD]

Contents:

    Tomás Luis de Victoria

  1. Ave Maria (à 4)
  2. Gaude, Maria Virgo (à 5), 1572
  3. Trahe me post te (à 6), 1583
  4. Salve, Regina (à 8), 1572
  5. Ave Regina caelorum (à 5), 1572
  6. Sancta Maria, succurre miseris (à 4), 1572
  7. Ne timeas, Maria (à 4), 1572
  8. Senex, Puerum portabat (à 4; instrumental), 1572
  9. O magnum mysterium (à 4), 1572
  10. Vidi speciosam sicut columbam (à 6), 1572
  11. Magnificat Primi toni (à 8), 1600

Playing time: 54' 57"

Performers:
La Capella Reial de Catalunya:
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Elisabeta Tiso (soprano), Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Bonnal (contralto), Jean-Luis Comoretto (counter-tenor), Paolo Costa (counter-tenor), Jean-Yves Guerry (counter-tenor), Lambert Climent (tenor), Pedro Ormazabal (tenor), Jordi Ricart (baritone), Josep Miquel Ramón (baritone), Daniele Carnovich (bass)
Hespèrion XX:
Jordi Savall (discant viola), Eunice Brandão (alto viola), Sergi Casademunt (tenor viola), Laurence Bonnal (bass viola), Lorenz Duftschmid (bass viola), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornett), Philippe Matharel (cornett), Richard Cheetham (trombone), Daniel Lassalle (trombone), Jean-Pierre Albouy (trombone), Guido Morini (organ)
Jordi Savall, dir.

Recording site and date:
Colegiata del Castillo de Cardona (Cataluña), Spain [04/1992];
Rel.: 1992 (E), 2002 (ES).

Compilation:
Fontalis (Naïve) ES 9916 [CDx3] Musica Sacra (aka: Maestros del Siglo de Oro): Cristóbal de Morales – Francisco Guerrero – Tomás Luis de Victoria

Excerpts:
[4] Fontalis (Auvidis) "Portrait" ES 9901 [CD] Montserrat Figueras: La Voix de l'émotion - The Voice of emotion
[9] Fontalis (Auvidis) ES 9902 [CD] Vox Æterna: XIème siècle - XVIIIème siècle
[10] Fontalis (Auvidis) "Portrait" ES 9906 [CD] Offertorium - La Capella Reial de Catalunya

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 391-162 (march 1993) - Diapason d'Or
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 16/5- (May / June 1993)

Comments:
Information from CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

Victoria published only one early book of motets (1572, subsequently reissued), performed here. He concentrated more on compositions for more specialized liturgical functions. Of course, he never wrote secular music at all, so this is as close as he comes.

Other recordings devoted to Victoria's motets:

Victoria: Et Jesum
Motets for solo voice
Carlos Mena / Juan Carlos Rivera
Harmonia Mundi "Ibèrica" 98 7042
Victoria: Motets
Victoria Voices and Viols - Andrew Hope
AS&V "Gaudeamus" 338
Motets by Victoria and Josquin des Prez
Schola Cantorum Copenhagen - Bernhard Lewkovitch
Danacord 390
Victoria: Motets (1572)
Ensemble La Sestina
Cascavelle 65620

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