To close the eighth edition of the Abvlensis International Music Festival, the RTVE Choir offered, under the direction of Cristoph König, an extraordinary concert at the Cathedral of Ávila in which they performed the Officium Defunctorum by Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Between two lights, the radio program of the Spanish National Radio Company, directed by Carlos Santos, dedicates to part of its program to Tomás Lus de Victoria thanks to the recent publication of the album De puntto por lettra (by the ensemble Ars Combinatoria). The interwiev involves some members of this vocal group (among other, Canco López, conductor of the coir), and they talk about Tomás Luis de Victoria music, but algo to some other aspects of Early music.
A chapter dedicated to the Tomás Luis de Victoria's hymn 'Vexila Regis Prodeunt', inserted in the office of Holy Week.
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.
Victoria´s biography review inSER Historia with Nacho Ares and Inés Mogollón, head of comunication from Abvlensis festivaland part of Tomas Luis de Vistoria´s Research Center.
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.
'Gran Repertorio', the program of the Spanish National Radio Company bring us a monographic issue about Tomás Luis de Victoria, and specially his Officium Defunctorum written on the occasion of the death of the Empress Margarita de Austria. To arcvhieve this, Daniel Quirós invites Carles Magraner (director of Capella de Ministrers) and Alonso de Vicente Delgado to the program to explain the author's work. However, the program is further enriched by analyzing the biography of Tomás Luis de Victoria and his religiosity.
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.
Local programation of Cadena SER featured the European Cultural Heritega Year seal award for Abvlensis on 22 of February 2018.
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.
