Victoria - Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae | Tactus TC552901

Victoria - Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae

Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC552901

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 6th July 2009

Contents

Artists

Complesso Vocale e Strumentale e Schola Gregoriana de la Stagione Armonica

Conductor

Sergio Balestracci

Works

Victoria, Tomas Luis de

Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae

Artists

Complesso Vocale e Strumentale e Schola Gregoriana de la Stagione Armonica

Conductor

Sergio Balestracci

About

Performers: Complesso Vocale e Strumentale e Schola Gregoriana de La Stagione Armonica - soprani: Nadia Caristi, Pierangela Forlenza, Resi Marcassa, Sonia Marcato, Cristina Siviero, Alessandra Vavasori, Elisabetta Zanon; contralti: Ilaria Cosma,Viviana Giorgi,Luisa Fontanieri, Luisa Longo, Tina Terzariol; tenori: Augusto Bellon, Vittorino Ciato, Stefano Dal Cortivo, Alessandro Gargiulo, Alberto Mazzocco, Tiziano Niero, Gabriele Martinello; bassi:Alessandro Berton, Nicola Bozzolan, Alessandro Colombo, Francesco Gonella, Alessandro Magagnin, Walter Testolin - Schola Gregoriana - Augusto Bellon, Stefano Dal Cortivo, Alessandro Gargiulo, Alberto Mazzocco, Tiziano Niero, Gabriele Martinello; direttore e solista : Alessio Radon

Director: Sergio Balestracci

The sequence of pieces which appear on this recording, all of which are taken from the Officium Hebdomadę Sanctę of 1585, concisely and efficaciously recounts the story of the Crucifixion as it dramatically unfolds. The Lectio tertia introduces the song of the Passio, preparing the listener for the central event of this collection. This St. John Passion (in the 1585 edition there also appears a St. Matthew Passion), is comprised of fourteen polyphonic sections sung by the turba which are extremely brief (some last no more than three or four measures) and are inserted into a narration sung in cantus firmus. In these Passions, all of the dramatic action, in this case narrated by the Evangelist with interventions by Christ, Peter and Pilate, was an integral part of the liturgy, in contrast to the Lutheran Passions. Thus, the need for conciseness lends a high level of emotional tension to the entire work.

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