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Victoria Recording Project
 In celebration of our 10th birthday and the 400th anniversary of the death of the finest of Spain's Renaissance composers, Ensemble Plus Ultra is releasing a series of ten CDs of the works of Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1548—1611). With an emphasis on works composed by Victoria in Madrid, and versions of works that have never before been recorded, the project features Andrés Cea Galan playing the historic organs of Lerma and Tordesillas, and collaborations with Spanish plainsong specialists Schola Antiqua (dir. Juan Carlos Asensio) and the specialist historical wind players of His Majesty Sagbutts & Cornetts (dir. Jeremy West).
The series of recordings is a project of the Fundación Caja Madrid, and the CDs will appear on the DGG Archiv label. Learn more.

Ensemble Plus Ultra

About Us
 When the emperor Charles V—the first of the Spanish Habsburgs—chose Plus Ultra as his motto, he signalled the dawn of an age of discovery that would re-interpret the legendary Pillars of Hercules as a gateway to expanded horizons rather than, as his predecessors had thought, the limiting borders of the Mediterranean. By discarding Non from the motto Non Plus Ultra, Charles V leant his imperial blessing to voyages of geographical and cultural discovery that continue to this day; with the stroke of a pen ‘thus far, no further’ became ‘thus far, and further’. It was this spirit of discovery, of unveiling musical treasures from the past, of exploring unchartered polyphonic waters, that led Michael Noone and Warren Trevelyan-Jones to found, in 2001, the Ensemble Plus Ultra.
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