12 February 2011
St Michael le Belfrey, York
7.30 pm (ends c.9.30 pm)
Tickets £14 (£12)
Glories of the Spanish Renaissance
including Victoria Requiem and psalm settings
with 12-part motets, psalms and Magnificat
The score shown here is a page from Victoria's Requiem,
which
is preserved in the archives of the cathedral of Tudela, Navarre, Spain.
Click on the picture to see a larger image.
No other period of musical history seems to have managed to capture the glorious choral sonority and colour of the music of Spanish Renaissance. Tomás Luis de Victoria is the best-known composer of this school and the Requiem his longest and most profound masterpiece. We are sure that our audiences will welcome our continued exploration of this repertoire. In this concert we include several specially edited large-scale compositions interspersed with more intimate motets and plainchant.