Cabanilles: Batalles, Tientos & Passacalles

Joan Cabanilles (Algemisí 1644 - València 1712)

Batalles, Tientos & Passacalles (1660 - 1700)
Hespèrion XX – Jordi Savall, dir.
Alia Vox AV 9801 [CD]

Contents:

Joan Cabanilles, (after Johann Kaspar Kerll)

1. Batalla Imperial

Joan Cabanilles

2. Tiento de falsas II
3. Passacalles I
4. Tiento lleno 2º tono
5. Corrente Italiana (Overture)
6. Tiento de falsas 8 punt alt
7. Passacalles IV
8. Tiento XXIII por A la mi re
9. Tiento I ple
10. Tiento XVII de « Pange lingua » punt alt
11. Tiento IX de contres

Performers:
Hespèrion XX:
Jordi Savall (soprano viola de gamba), Sophie Watillon (alto viola de gamba), Sergi Casademunt (tenor viola de gamba), Eunice Brandao (bass viola de gamba), Lorenz Duftschmid (bass viola de gamba, violone), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornet), Alfredo Bernardini (shawm), Daniel Lassalle (tenor sackbut), Josep Borràs (dulcian), Michael Behringer (portative organ), Andrew Lawrence-King (arpa cruzada), Michèle Claude (drum)
Jordi Savall, dir.

Playing time: 61' 41"

Recording site and date:
Colegiata del Castillo de Cardona (Cataluny), Spain [06 & 09/1996];
Rel.: 1998.

Excerpts:
[1] Alia Vox AV 9810 [CD] Harmonie universelle
[1] Alia Vox AV 9849 [CD + catalogue] Les Métamorphoses de la Foi

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 447- (April 1998)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): (November/December 2000)
Goldberg (y., #-p.): 1998, 03-66
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): (Awards 1998)

Comments:
Information from CD.

The present performance consists of instrumental ensemble arrangements of what were published by Cabanilles as keyboard works. The liner notes present some arguments concerning the acceptability of this practice at the time.

This is the first recording on Savall's new label.

A recording of violin-oriented Spanish music from this period:

Tientos y Batallas

Música violinística española del XVII
La Real Cámara - Emilio Moreno & Enrico Gatti
Glossa 920304

A recording devoted to an earlier stage in Spanish instrumental music, similar transcribed from keyboard to ensemble:

Antonio de Cabezón: Glosados, Diferencias, Tientos

Trio Unda Maris
La mà de guido 2014

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