Choc de Classica, 2018
Tenebrae Responsories
Stile Antico’s latest recording features Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories. This stupendous cycle of music for Holy Week, written for the intensely atmospheric service of Tenebrae at which the candles of the church were successfully extinguished, stands as one of the greatest achievements of the Spanish Renaissance. Between these dramatic, dark-hued settings Stile Antico intersperses plainchant readings from the book of Lamentations, and the programme is completed by the motet O Domine Jesu Christe, a radiant meditation on the figure of Christ crucified.
Recorded: February, 2017
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: HMM 902272
This has to be Stile Antico’s best album to date: it’s certainly their most gripping and, as ever with this ensemble, the vocal sound is sumptuous throughout.
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Gramophone Editor’s Choice, May 2018
4F de Télérama, March 2018
Do your soul some good. Turn off the outside world, turn down the lights, and put this on. Bask in the glow of music that in its innocent simplicity, attains perfection.
Jean-Yves Duperron, Classical Music Sentinel (February, 2018)
Stile Antico’s arresting readings never felt imposed upon Victoria’s writing. Often, I couldn’t help feeling that these singers had unleashed rhetorical power that was always there, albeit under the surface.
David Patrick Stearns, The Arts Journal (13 April, 2018)
Stile Antico once again proves that they are, without doubt, one of the most impressive vocal ensembles before the public today.
Positive Feedback, John Marks (30 March, 2018)
Stile Antico’s performance – the settings for each day separated by plainsong – seems to capture that mix of austerity and contained intensity perfectly.
Andrew Clements, The Observer (15 March, 2018)
This has to be Stile Antico’s best album to date: it’s certainly their most gripping and, as ever with this ensemble, the vocal sound is sumptuous throughout… It’s rather thrilling therefore to hear Stile Antico… tap in to the dramatic excitement and atmospheric intensity now associated with these works.
Ed Breen, Gramophone (May 2018)
Stile Antico sensibly brings a variety of pace to its performances… the singers inject plenty of Latin passion into their clear, English choral sound.
Tony Way, Limelight (14 June, 2018)
- Amicus meus osculi me
- Judas mercator pessimus
- Unus ex discipulis meis
- Eram quasi agnus innocens
- Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum
- Seniores populi consilium fecerunt
- Incipit lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae
- Tamquam ad latronem existis
- Tenebrae factae sunt
- Animam meam dilectam
- Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum
- Jesum tradidit impius summis principibus sacerdotum
- Caligaverunt oculi mei a fletu meo
- De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae
- Recessit pastor noster
- O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam
- Ecce quomodo moritur
- Astiterunt reges terrae
- Aestimatus sum
- Sepulto Domino
- De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae
- O Domine Jesu Christe