Portuguese Organ Music 1540-1834

This edition, edited by Gerhard Doderer (Lisbon) and Miguel Bernal Ripoll (Madrid), offers a representative overview of the cosmos of Portuguese organ compositions spanning three hundred years.

The printed collection of Gonçalo de Baena (Lisbon 1540) and the Portuguese secularisation of 1834 were chosen as the parameters within which pieces were selected. This stimulating and inspiring album of works by Portuguese organists or organists working in Portugal such as António de Carreira, Manuel Rodrigues Coelho, Pedro de Araújo and Carlos Seixas, dispenses with the adoption of historical notation and makes this music directly accessible to today's organists by orientating itself to the current practise.

In addition to 27 organ compositions of various genres such as Verso, Tento, Batalha or Sonata, the volume contains detailed explanations of the compositions, their liturgical function and organ building. This gives an impression of the diverse, geographically very different and, over the centuries, highly diversified Portuguese organ landscape.

Content:
Baena, António de: I. Sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus
Baena, António de: II. Benedictus qui venit
Paiva, Heliodoro de: III. Tento do Terceiro Tom
Carreira, António: IV. Tento do Primeiro Tom
Carreira, António: V. Tento do Sexto Tom
Carreira, António: VI. Tento Con qué la lavaré la flor de la mi cara
Coelho, Manuel Rodrigues: VII. Versos de Magnificat do Primeiro Tom
Coelho, Manuel Rodrigues: VIII. Versos de Kyrie do Primeiro Tom por C sol fa ut
Coelho, Manuel Rodrigues: IX. Tento do Oitavo Tom
Coelho, Manuel Rodrigues: X. Susana glosada
Alvarado, Diego de: XI. Tento sobre Pange Lingua
Conceição, Diogo da: XII. Tento de meio registo alto de Segundo Tom
Braga, António Correa: XIII. Batalha de Sexto Tom
Reis, Gaspar dos: XIV. Concertado sobre Ave Maris Stella
Reis, Gaspar dos: XV. Tenção sobre o Kyrie da Missa de Santa Maria
Araujo, Pedro de: XVI. Obra de Primeiro Tom
Araujo, Pedro de: XVII. Obra de Sexto Tom
Araujo, Pedro de: XVIII. Batalha de Sexto Tom
Araujo, Pedro de: XIX. Phantasia de Quarto Tom
San Lorenzo, Pedro de: XX. Obra de meio registo da mão esquerda de Primeiro Tom
Seixas, José Antonio Carlos de: XXI. Tocata.
Seixas, José Antonio Carlos de: XXII. Fuga
Seixas, José Antonio Carlos de: XXIII. Fuga
Madre de Deus, João da: XXIV. Fuga
São Boaventura, Francisco de: XXV. Sonata
Portugal, Marcos António: XXVI. Sonata
Marques e Silva, José: XXVII. Prelúdio