Tenebrae Responsories - Matins Responsories for Maundy Thursday
Tenebrae Responsories - Matins Responsories for Good Friday
Tenebrae Responsories - Matins Responsories for Holy Saturday

How can so little mean so much? Victoria’s austere yet profoundly moving setting of the Responsories for the services of Tenebrae is one of the great classics of Renaissance music. In this new recording sung by solo voices it is restored to the low pitch and voicing intended by the composer.

These perfect miniatures are interspersed with spoken word readings of nine of Christopher Reid’s heart-rending poems from his 2009 collection, ‘A Scattering’, a moving collection on the dying and death of his wife.