Program: #12-53👑 Air Date: Dec 24, 2012
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Recent releases of works by contemporaries Tomas Luis de Victoria and Giovanni Gabrieli give us a chance to celebrate the season as it would have been four centuries ago.
I. Victoria: Motecta 1572 (Ensemble La Sestina/Adriano Giardina, cond.).
Suisse Classique CD Ref 65620.
TOMÁS LUIS de VICTORIA (1548-1611):
- Quem vidistis Pastores ("Shepherds, tell us about the One you saw").
- O Regem Caeli ("O heavenly King").
- O magnum mysterium ("O great mystery and wonderful sacrament").
- Gaude Virgo ("Rejoice Mary").
II. Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies (Ex Cathedra/His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts/Concerto Palatino/Jeffrey Skidmore, cond.)
Hyperion CD CDA 67957.
GIOVANNI GABRIELI (c.1554/7-1612):
- Magnificat à 12 (published 1615).
- Litanie Beatae Mariae Virginis à 8 (published 1615).
III. Victoria: Et Jesum—Motets for Solo Voice (Carlos Mena, countertenor/Juan Carlos Rivera, lute & vihuela).
Harmonia Mundi CD HMG 50742.
VICTORIA:
- Senex puerum portabat ("Behold, and old man carried the Child").
- Magi viderunt stellam ("The Wise Men, beholding the star").
- Missa O magnum mysterium.
Composer Info
TOMÁS LUIS de VICTORIA (1548-1611), GIOVANNI GABRIELI (c.1554/7-1612)
CD Info
Suisse Classique CD Ref 65620, Hyperion CD CDA 67957 , CD HMG 50742