This austere setting of O sacrum convivium by Tomás Luis de Victoria is scored for four voices (he also wrote one for six voices), three of which sing in roughly the same range with the fourth voice much lower.
Our choir has sung this work in an arrangement for four men’s voices and one for three female and one male voice. This motet is unlike most of Victoria’s music in its directness, with very little counterpoint.
Here is a performance of O sacrum convivium
by La Grande Chapelle