Tomás Luis de Victoria – Vespers

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Vespers

The Exon Singers
Delphian Records DCD34025 (2004)
£10

“brilliant soprano sound” – The Daily Telegraph

“one is just swept along by the unabashed exuberance of the singing” – International Record Review

The Spanish master of the golden age of polyphony, Tomas Luis de Victoria, left an astoundingly beautiful legacy of antiphonal sacred music devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Realised for the very first time here by The Exon Singers is a Vespers for the Annunciation, bringing together these works of Marian devotion in a glorious and revelatory celebration.

Track listing:

  • 1 Versicle and Response: Deus, in adiutorium meum intende
  • 2 Antiphon: Missus est Gabriel
    Vesper Psalm: Dixit Dominus à 8
    Antiphon: Missus est Gabriel
  • 3 Antiphon: Ave Maria
    Vesper Psalm: Laudate pueri Dominum à 8
  • 4 Motet: Ave Maria à 8
  • 5 Antiphon: Ne timeas Maria
    Vesper Psalm: Laetatus sum à 12
  • 6 Motet: Ne timeas Maria à 4
  • 7 Antiphon: Dabit ei Dominus
    Vesper Psalm: Nisi Dominus à 8
    Antiphon: Dabit ei Dominus
  • 8 Little Chapter: Ecce virgo concipiet
    Response: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae
  • 9 Hymn: Ave maris stella à 4
    Versicle and Response: Ave Maria, gratia plena
  • 10 Magnificat antiphon: Gabriel Angelus
    Magnificat: Magnificat anima mea à 8
    Magnificat antiphon: Gabriel Angelus
  • 11 Versicle and Response: Dominus vobiscum
    Collect for the day: Deus, qui de beatae Mariae Virginis
    Versicle and Response: Dominus vobiscum
    Versicle and Response: Benedicamus Domino
  • 12 Votive antiphon: Regina coeli à 8
    Versicle and Response: Gaude et laetare
    Votive Antiphon Collect: Deus, qui per resurrectionem Filii
  • 13 Litany of Loreto: Kyrie eleison à 8

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