Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 - 1611)
Missa O Magnum Mysterium

Alonso Lobo (c. 1555 - 1617)
Versa est in luctum

Duarte Lobo (c. 1565 - 1646)
Missa pro defunctis (1621)

Orlande de Lassus (1532 - 1594)
Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera

In 1575 Tomás Luis de Victoria was ordained to the priesthood by the last living member of the pre-Reformation English Church hierarchy - a certain Bishop Thomas Goldwell. In retrospect at least it makes a curious picture' the meeting of representatives from two very different modes of Catholicism, perhaps only a generation apart in age, but a revolution apart in style. For Victoria was born into the post-Tridentine world and his Masses and motets were to play the same role in the Spanish dominions as his mentor Palestrina's played in Rome - to provide a consistent and vigorous corpus of new music for the Counter-Reformation Church, Much of it for instance was performed and admired in the brave