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Musica Ficta vocal ensemble, led by Raul Mallavibarrena, has recorded a new album devoted mainly to Tomas Luis de Victoria music, entitled "Victoria alio modo." Accompanied by Sara Agueda'a harp, the group is formed by Lore Agustí, soprano; Gabriel Diaz, countertenor; Beatriz Oleaga, alt; Javier M. Carmena and Inigo Casalí, tenors and Simon Millán, bass.

Edited under the label Enchiriadis - Arianne Series, the disc gives a collection of motets and some instrumental pieces by Agueda, also.

From 30 January to 2 February 2014 in Toledo it was held an international symposium on "The entorno musical del Greco", sponsored by El Greco 2014 Foundation, within the activities for the fourth centenary of the death of the great cretan painter. The proceedings gather papers investigating the musical and artistic riches that treasured the cities where El Greco, lived with particular attention to Toledo.

It is now available the digitalization of Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae of Tomás Luis de Victoria, published in Rome by Dominici Basae.

There are some copies of this edition, one of them in Monaterio de las Descalzas Reales, now guarded at Biblioteca del Palacio Real in Madrid.