Universal Spain have, over recent years, been releasing new recordings of works by the Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611), who stands alongside Palestrina and Lassus as one of the greatest composers of his age.  

The recordings were made by  highly-regarded British Early Music group Ensemble Plus Ultra under Michael Noone (“a crack squad” – Early Music Today), who won critical acclaim for CDs of Morales and other Spanish composers on the Glossa label (“breathtakingly beautiful” – BBC Radio 3, CD Review).

Altogether, 10 CDs of Victoria’s works have been released. Now we have seized the opportunity, in the year when we commemorate the 400th anniversary of Victoria’s death, to bring all of these recordings together in a single box that forms a remarkable wide-ranging compendium of works, mainly from the Madrid period of his life (1586–1611).

It is undoubtedly the largest collection available of Victoria’s music, with over 90 works on the 10 CDs, including three masses and six Magnificats never previously recorded – as well as many of the favourite motets and masses of the Victoria canon.

These recordings have never before been available outside Spain.   

Contents:
CD 1: "Pro Victoria"
1. Secuencia: Veni, Sanctze Spiritus (1600)
2 – 6. Missa pro Victoria (1600)
7. Salmo: Super fluminis Babylonis (1600)
8 – 16. Missa pro Defunctis (1583)
Responsorium: Libera me
Responsorium: Peccatntem me (1592)
17. Responsorium: Credo quod Redemptor (1592)
 
CD 2: Lamentaciones de Jeremias
1 – 13. Lamentaciones de Jeremias
 
CD 3: Misas y Magnificat del Manuscrito Toledano (E-Tc 30)
1 – 8. MIssa Gaudeamus
Magnificat Octavi toni (Antifona Hodie Maria)
Vidi acquam
9 – 14. Missa ave maris stella
 
CD 4: Missa de Beata Virgine y motetes para Virgen
1. Ave Maria
2. Vide speciosam
3. Gaude Maria virgo
4 – 9. Missa de Beata Virgine (versión toledana)
10. Quam pulchra sunt
11. Sancta Maria
12. Trahe me post te
13. Magnificat primatoni (Antifona: Virgo prudentissima)
14. Beat es virgo
 
CD 5: Missa Alma redemptoris Mater, Magnificats y motetes para la Virgen
1. Magnificat primi toni
2. Alma redemptoris Mater
3 – 8. Missa Alma redemptoris Mater
9. Ut queant laxis
10. Magnificat quarti toni (Antifona: Sancta Maria sucurre)
(con versos para órgano por A. de Cabezón)
11. Vedam et circuibo (arr. Bovicelli, 1594)
12. Pange lingua gloriosi “more hispano”
(con un verso para órgano por A. de Cabezón)
 
CD 6: Hymnos, Motetes y Misa de Todos los Santos
1. Tu es Petrus
2. Christe redemptore omnium
3. Doctor bonus
4. Tibi Christe
5. Descendit angelus
6. O doctor optime
7. O quam gloriosum
8 – 13. Missa O quam gloriosum
14. Lauda mater ecclesia
15. O decus aapostolicum
16. Aurea luce et decore
 
CD 7: Liturgia de Pascua en el Madrid de los Austrias ca. 1600
1. Laetatus sum
Sabbato Sancto:
Ad Vigiliam Paschalem
2. Laudate pueri (Antiphona: Alleluia!)
3. Magnificat (Antiphona: Vespere autem)
Dominca Resurrectionis
Ad Missam
4. Introitus: Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum
5 – 9. Missa Laetatus sum
Ad Vesperas
10. Alleluia:Angelus Domini
11. Sequentia: Victime paschali laudes
12. Hymnus: Ad caenum Agni providi
Ad Completorium
13. Ecce nunc benedictus Dominum (Antiphona: Miserere mihi)
14. Antiphona: Regina coeli laetare
 
CD 8: Missa Ave Regina, motets y música para Vesperas
1. Nigra sum sed formosa (motete a6)
2. Senex puerum portabat (motete a4)
3. Salve Regina (antifona a 6)
4. Dixit Dominus (salmo a8)
5. Magnificat Quinti toni (a6, versos pares)
6. Laudate Dominum (salmo a 8)
7. Ave Regina coelorum (antifona a 8)
8 – 12. Missa Ave Regina (a 8 y órgano)
13. Date ei de fructu ( motete a 4)
14. O sacrum convivium (motete a 6)

CD 9: Missa Salve y motetes
1. Lauda Sion 8vv
2. Domine non sum dignus 4vv
3. Salve regina 8vv (versión toledana)
4. Ave maris stella 4vv (con canto llano toledano)
5. Ego sum panis vivus 4vv
6. Tantum ergo 5vv
7. Missa Salve 8vv—Kyrie
8. Missa Salve 8vv—Gloria
9. Missa Salve 8vv—Credo
10. Missa Salve 8vv—Sanctus & Benedictus
11. Missa Salve 8vv—Agnus
12. O sacrum convivium 4vv
13. Litaniae de Beata Virgine 8vv

CD 10: Motetes e Himnos para el año litúrgico
1. Surrexit pastor bonus 6vv
2. O lux et decus Hispaniae 5vv
3. O regem caeli 4vv
4. Magi viderunt stellam 4vv
5. Conditor alme siderum 4vv
6. Vadam et circuibo civitatem 6vv
7. Duo seraphim 4vv
8. Veni creator spiritus 4vv
9. O magnum mysterium 4vv
10. Ascendens Christus 5vv
11. Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes 5vv
12. Hostis Herodes 4vv
13. Quem vidistis, pastores 6vv
14. Ardens est cor meum 6vv