VICTORIA: EASTER WEEK LAMENTATIONS & RESPONSORIES - CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
EASTER WEEK Lamentations & Responsories

Choir of Trinity College
Cambridge
Richard Marlow

“This offer is less stereotyped. Here just the nine Second Nocturn responsories are sung, each group prefaced by Victoria ‘s complementary polyphonic ‘Lamentation’. Whereas the responsories are short and sharp, there’s an elegant breadth and languor in his music for the Lamentations, and the alternating two styles makes an effective contrast. In the responsories, the Trinity choir succeeds in conveying the texts without straying into the dangerous territory of high drama …their superb discipline compensates for the fact that these are first and foremost liturgical works with roots deeply embedded in the performing traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.”

MAUNDY THURSDAY – FERIA V IN COENA DOMINI AD MATUTINUM (Tenebrae)

LESSONS OF THE FIRST NOCTURN
[1] Lectio I: Incipit Lamentatio leremiae 6:41
[2] Lectio II: Vau. Et egressus
4:57
[3] Lectio III: Iod Manum suam 6:00

RESPONSORIES OF THE SECOND NOCTURN
[4] Responsorium IV: Amicus meus 2:46
[5] Responsorium V: ludas Mercator 2:09
[6] Responsorium VI: Unus ex discipulis 2:35

GOOD FRIDAY – FERIA VI IN PARASCEVE AD MATUTINUM (Tenebrae)

LESSONS OF THE FIRST NOCTURN
[7] Lectio I: Heth. Cogitavit Dominus 3:44
[8] Lectio II: Lamed. Matribus suis 5:27
[9] Lectio III: Aleph. Ego vir videns 5:16

RESPONSORIES OF THE SECOND NOCTURN
[10] Responsorium IV: Tamquam ad latronem 3:17
[11] Responsorium V: Tenebrae factae sunt 4:33
[12] Responsorium VI: Animam meam dilectam 3:55

HOLY SATURDAY SABBATO SANCTO AD MATUTINUM (Tenebrae)

LESSONS OF THE FIRST NOCTURN
[13] Lectio I: Heth, Misericordiae Domini 4:56
[14] Lectio II: Aleph. Quomodo obscuratum 5:11
[15] Lectio III: Incipit Oratio Ieremiae 7:32

RESPONSORIES OF THE SECOND NOCTURN
[16] Responsorium IV: Recessit pastor 3:12
[17] Responsorium V: O vos omnes 3:17
[18] Responsorium VI: Ecce quomodo moritur 3:36