Arauxo / Cera Organ Music CD

It may be pure coincidence, but in 1626, it was two enlightened intellectuals from Seville - artist Diego Velazquez and composer Francisco Correa de Arauxo, who stood out for their ability to portray a microcosm of human emotions in their work. The surviving body of Correa's work, the Facultad organica, was published in 1626. For it's time it remains a remarkably forward-looking collection. It is especially notable for the dissonant harmonies which Correa, as a cleric as well as a composer, aimed to evoke for his listeners the hardships facing them on their path towards a longed-for paradise. Francesco Cera has made an album of highlights from the Facultad organica. The original volume opened with a collection of tientos, organised as a collection following the 12 modern modes - an exceptional practice in Spanish keyboard music. The first tiento was a calling-card for Correa, revealing his skill at counterpoint by employing thematic inversion and experimenting with different types of imitative technique. Interleaved with the dance-like, freely elaborated tientos are the glosas, which exploit still more virtuosic possibilities of rhythm and color - Correa himself was evidently a distinguished performer. The result is a collection of still little-known yet dazzling music that will attract the attention of all organ-music enthusiasts. Francesco Cera has made significant contributions to the Brilliant Classics library of 17th-century keyboard music. Among them are albums dedicated to d'Anglebert and an imaginative compilation of Gabrieli, Cabezon and Frescobaldi, 'The Organ at European Courts'.

1. Segundo Tiento de Tiple de Septimo Tono 2. Tiento y Discurso de Segundo Tono 3. Tiento de Dos Tiples de Septimo Tono 4. Segundo Tiento de Quarto Tono a Modo de Canci?n 5. Segundo Tiento de Baxon de Septimo Tono 6. Tiento de Primero Tono 7. Tercero Tiento de Tiple de Septimo Tono 8. Tiento de Sexto Tono Sobre la Batalla de Morales 9. Canci?n Gaybergier 10. Tiento de Tiple de Septimo Tono 11. Tiento de Duodecimo Tono 12. Tres Glosas Sobre El Canto Llano de la Immaculada Concepci?n 13. Tiento de Quinto Tono 14. Discurso de Dos Baxones de Segundo Tono 15. Tiento y Discurso de Tercero Tono 16. Tiento de Tiple de Segundo Tono 17. Quinto Tiento de Quarto Tono 18. Tiento de Baxon de Dezimo Tono 19. Tiento de Septimo Tono