Podcasts

Printing press was a milestone in Renaissance Europe facing to culture production and mentalities developement. This revolutionary instrument also influenced music and, although less vigorously than in other European spaces, also in Spain we can obsvserve some relevant publications. The program "Música Antigua" (form the National Radio of Spain) brings us some extraordinary examples of this music. The podcast is specially focused on the Hispanic instrumentalist but the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria is also mentioned.

On Sunday July the 14th 2019, the radio programme “Música con estilo”, devoted a full programme to Victoria´s music with a programme called “Music and word on Tomás Luis de Victoria”. Was this very particular use that Victoria had when created musics for the most sensorial and sinesthesic texts he selected, the main theme on the programme. We could hear some of his motets with texts from the Song of songs, a text with an incredible sensorial and almost phisical caratcer, so rich in images, perfect for Victoria´s mastery.

The France Music platform bring to us the performance of the Dulce Mémorire ensemble at Ambronay Abbey, within the framework of the Ambronay festival (on September 17, 2017), where they performed, among other pieces, parts of the 'Pro Victoria' mass.

From Cuenca Cathedral, featuring Ministriles de Marsias and Schola Antiqua, Ignasi Jordá and Javier Artigas as organists, and under the direction of Francisco Rubio and Juan Carlos Asensio, Pro Victoria Mass by Tomas Luis de Victoria was played.