Although many consider Tomas Luis de Victoria to be the ‘Spanish Palestrina’, Victoria himself regarded his contemporary Alonso Lobo his equal. Lobo’s output of sacred polyphony spans the end of the 16th century and features many of the same textural devices and counterpoint techniques as his Italian and other Spanish counterparts, but during his own time his influence may have been even more far-reaching than either of them: his music was known in Portugal, Italy, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas. What we don’t have of Lobo’s is any secular or purely instrumental music – but what there is, is truly beautiful. Join Vlad this Easter Sunday morning for recordings from the few years that feature masterworks by this star of Iberian composition, who died this day in 1617.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 5th April, 7am-10am
