Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall, Capella Reial de Cata

DOMINICA IN RAMIS PALMARUM
1-5. –Pueri Hebræorum. Passio secundum Mathæum. O Domine Jesu Christe
FERIA QUINTA IN CENA DOMINI
6-20. – LAMENTATIO JEREMIÆ PROPHETÆ
Lectio Prima, Lectio Secunda, Lectio Tertia
21-29. SEX TENEBRÆ RESPONSORIA
30-33. AD LAUDES. Benedictus Dominus. Miserere. Pange lingua

CD2
FERIA SEXTA IN PASSIONE DOMINI
1-10. LAMENTATIO JEREMIÆ PROPHETÆ
11-20. SEX TENEBRÆ RESPONSORIA
21-22. AD LAUDES. Passio secundum Joannem
23-26. IN ADORATIONE CRUCIS. Vere languores. Popule meus

CD3
SABBATO SANCTO
1-14. LAMENTATIO JEREMIÆ PROPHETÆ
15-25. SEX TENEBRÆ RESPONSORIA
26-29. AD LAUDES. Benedictus Dominus. Miserere. Vexilla regis

"More than 70 years ago, the sequences of Gregorian chant and polyphonic music such as that of Tomás Luis de Victoria made a profound impression on my musical experience at that time from 1949 to 1953, when I was a chorister under the direction of Joan Just in the boys’ choir of the Piarist school at Igualada, Catalonia. To have been submerged in the beauty of that music during my childhood unquestionably made a lasting impact and shaped certain aspects of my education as a chorister, and particularly my musical sensibility. The memory of those spellbinding chants also had a decisive influence on my choice to study the cello a few years later, just before I turned 15, when I was spellbound one evening at a rehearsal of Mozart’s Requiem. It was after that evening of extraordinary intensity, and thanks to Joan Just, who conducted the choir of the Schola Cantorum in Igualada, that I fully realized the power of music and decided to become a musician. (...)

Tomás Luis de Victoria’s OFFICIUM HEBDOMADÆ SANCTÆ is one of the most compelling examples of creative genius in a composer, a toweringly poignant and masterpiece on the Passion of Christ, a pure but infinitely subtle creation, Ad majorem Dei gloriam." - Jorvi Savall

Live recording 24. and 27. 7. 2018