Missa Victimae Paschali Laudes: Giovanni Animuccia 1520?-1571

Il Primo Libro di Messe — Roma — 1567
with the Easter Propers by G P da Palestrina

Released in 2006 as part of The Tudor Consort's 20th anniversary Animuccia’s Missa Victimae Paschali Laudes was published in Rome in 1567. The collection in which this mass appears claims that the music has been written “according to the stipulations of the Council of Trent” — in other words, with the Counter-Reformation ethics of simplicity and intelligibility to the fore. In fact, this six-part mass, which is chordal only fleetingly, could scarcely be described as a simple work. In one respect the Missa Victimae Paschali Laudes is sympathetic to the wishes of the Council, however, and that is in its dignified and serious style. It is based on the Easter sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes, a minor mode melody. Treated with a measure of freedom, the melody appears throughout the mass in one of the soprano lines, but by means of imitation, is referred to in all parts.

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In Memoriam John Steele

The Tudor Consort directed by Simon Ravens

Soprano Tina Carter, Jane Deighton, Deborah Gordon, Janine Dyne, Andra Patterson, Lucy Richards, Rosalind Salas
Alto Suzanne Aspden, Forrest Chambers, Andrea Cochrane, Rebecca Currier, Svetlana Lushkott
Tenor John Beaglehole, Ewen Griffiths, David Pope, Glen Schuitman
Bass Glenn Denby, Simon Kane, Shaun McGrath, Simon Ravens

Chamber Organ Philip Walsh
Production and Engineering John Button
Missa Victimae Paschali Laudes edited by Professor John Steele

Recorded in Wellington Cathedral of St Paul in 1992

dir. Simon Ravens

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