Composer: Joan Cabanilles
Performer: Timothy Roberts
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0451
Release: 2019
Size: 731 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tiento No. 57 de primero tono ‘a modo de Italia’
02. Tiento No. 107 partido de mano derecha, de sesto tono
03. Tiento No. 89 partido de mano derecha de batalla, de ocho tono
04. Tiento No. 40 partido de mano izquierda, de tercero tono
12 versos de primero tono
05. Verso No. 42 de primero tono
06. Verso No. 49 de primero tono
07. Verso No. 43 de primero tono
08. Verso No. 50 de primero tono
09. Verso No. 45 de primero tono
10. Verso No. 51 de primero tono
11. Verso No. 46 de primero tono
12. Verso No. 53 de primero tono
13. Verso No. 47 de primero tono
14. Verso No. 52 de primero tono
15. Verso No. 48 de primero tono
16. Verso No. 57 de primero tono “De contras”
17. Tiento No. 59 partido de dos tiples, de secondo tono por G sol
18. Tiento No. 26 lleno, de primero tono
19. Diferencias de Folías de primero tono, WSC 152
20. Tiento No. 30 lleno, de primero tono
21. Tiento No. 81 partido de dos tiples, de cuarto tono
The organ music of Joan (or Juan) Cabanilles (1644–1712) is virtuosic and colourfully Baroque, and touched with a distinctively Spanish intensity. Cabanilles is claimed as the most prolific of all composers for the organ, and publication of his works, begun in 1927, has not caught up with his output. But the surviving manuscripts can be seriously corrupt, requiring extensive editing and sometimes even detailed recomposition. This recording – Volume Three of an ongoing series – therefore uses a number of new editions to present the music as never heard before, as close as possible to what the composer might have intended. It was made using the historic (1732) organ in the Basilica of Sant Jaume in Vila-real, Valencia. Timothy Roberts was for twenty years principal keyboard of the Gabrieli Consort and Players; he also became director of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts. In recent years he has also been active as a recording engineer and sound editor, composer and music-typesetter.