Wonderful recording of a great composer
Tomas Luis de Victoria is perhaps best known for his Officium Defunctorum (1605), but many more works by this composer are equally worth hearing. This set contains 10 CDs with many previously unrecorded works or previously unrecorded versions of works we already know. Included are many masses, magnificats, motets, lamentations, the "other" Officium Defunctorum (for 4 voices, published in 1592). Some music is sung by voices only, other works are supported by an organ, and some by cornets and sackbuts. The singing and playing is excellent, and this is an essential recording for lovers of the late polyphony!
