Requiem of Tomas Luis de Victoria (1603)

Victoria''s Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be ''a Requiem for an age'', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony. Yet it has been the focus of surprisingly little research. Owen Rees''s multifaceted study brings together the historical and ritual contexts for the work''s genesis, the first detailed musical...