Victoria: Requiem

The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips director
Daniel Hyde director

Parsons O bone Jesu
Parsons Ave Maria
White Regina caeli
Byrd All Saints Propers
Victoria Requiem

Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Requiem stands as the crowning achievement of Spain’s greatest Renaissance composer, and a masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age. Written in 1603 for the funeral of the Dowager Empress Maria, this Mass for the Dead evokes a profound sense of peace rather than grief. The beauty and luminous stillness in its slow-moving harmonies and closely-woven vocal lines turn sorrow to solace, mourning to consolation.

‘[The Tallis Scholars’] tonal purity, articulation, ensemble spirit: everything here is sheer perfection.’ The Times