Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn II - Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signa
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn II - Iudas mercator pessimus
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn II - Unus ex discipulis meis tradet me hodie
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn III - Eram quasi agnus innocens
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn III - Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum
Responsories for Maundy Thursday Nocturn III - Seniores populi consilium fecerunt
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn II - Tamquam ad latronem existis
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn II - Tenebrae factae sunt
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn II - Animam meam dilectam
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn III - Tradiderunt me in manus impiorum
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn III - lesum tradidit impius summis
Responsories for Good Friday Nocturn III - Caligaverunt oculi mei
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn II - Recessit pastor noster
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn II - O vos omnes
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn II - Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn III - Astiterunt reges terrae
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn III - Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus
Responsories for Holy Saturday Nocturn III - Sepulto Domino

Tenebrae return to the sublime music of Tomás Luis de Victoria on Signum with this recording of his timeless Tenebrae Responsories. The works mix the words of the Gospels with other texts commenting on collective suffering written around the 4th century, and would traditionally have been performed as part of a moving service in which candles are slowly extinguished to mark the progress and suffering of Christ that forms the Passion story.



Tenebrae's previous disc of works by Victoria (Requiem Mass, 1605) won the BBC Music Magazine Award for Best Choral Album of 2012