Prom 28: Victoria
A Prom from 2011 featuring music from Spain's Golden Age as the Tallis Scholars perform the Requiem by Renaissance composer Victoria, to mark his 400th anniversary.
蜜芽传媒 PROMS 2011
Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London last August
Presented by Martin Handley
Another chance to hear a Prom concert marking the 400th anniversary of the death of great Spanish Renaissance composer Victoria performed by one of the world's leading specialists in early music - the Tallis Scholars. At the heart of their programme is Victoria's glorious Requiem - composed in 1603 for the funeral rites of the Dowager Empress Maria, sister of Philip II of Spain - a summation and a farewell to the music of Spain's Golden Age.
Victoria: Dum complerentur
Victoria: Lamentations for Good Friday
Victoria: Officium defunctorum (Requiem)
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (conductor).
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