Below is an audio recording of Victoria’s “Astiterunt reges”, the seventh responsory for Holy Saturday.
Victoria’s setting shows the clarity of Renaissance music that makes it so attractive to many. Notice how clear each voice is as it carves out its on path in the four-voice texture. Note also how small melodic shapes are passed between voices as they imitate each other.
This short, beautiful work, appears near the end of BCE’s program.
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