15 lossless recordings of Victoria Officium Defunctorum (Requiem). Added God’s Composer (2011), a BBC documentary organized as a biographical sketch of the late sixteenth century Spanish composer and organist Tomás Luis de Victoria. British actor Simon Russell Beale serves as an informed and enthusiastic presenter as he strides through cathedrals, art galleries, archives, convents and palaces while swiftly narrating the composer’s early life, his two decades in Rome and the final homecoming to Spain.

01 Nicholson, Choir Of The Abbey Of Mount Angel (RCA, 1958)
02 Phillips, The Tallis Scholars (Gimell, 1987)
03 Hill, Westminster Cathedral Choir (Hyperion, 1987)
04 McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort (Archiv, 1994)
05 Cave, Magnificat (Linn, 1995)
06 Balestracci, La Stagione Armonica (Panclassics, 2002)
07 Mallavibarrena, Musica Ficta (Enchiriadis, 2002)
08 Monks, Armonico Consort (Deux-Elles, 2004)
09 Christophers, The Sixteen (Coro, 2005)
10 Magraner, Capella De Ministrers (CDM, 2005)
11 Short, Tenebrae (Signum, 2010)
12 Grün, KammerChor Saarbruecken (Rondeau, 2010)
13 Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent (Phi, 2011)
14 Ross, Choir of Clare College (HM, 2014)
15 Mallavibarrena, Musica Ficta (Enchiriadis, 2017)