Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah; Padilla: Lamentations for Maundy Thursday | CD review

Tallis Scholars/Phillips(Gimell)As Peter Phillips points out in his sleeve notes to his choir's beautifully understated recording of one of the greatest achievements of Spanish Golden Age polyphony, the expressive intensity driving Victoria's music makes it instantly identifiable in a way that the works of his predecessors and contemporaries never quite are. The music of Morales, Guerrero, Lobo or Padilla may be fluent and seraphically beautiful, but it never suggests the individuality of Victor...

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