Peter de Jager - Iberian Organ Music (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Tiento de falsas 1º tono
02. Medio registro alto de Primer Tono
03. Verse 1: Magnificat
04. Versos de primer tom, nº 1
05. Primeiro Verso de primeiro Tom sobre o canto chao do Tiple
06. Versos de primer tom, nº2
07. Outro Verso do mesmo tom sobre o mesmo Tiple
08. Versos de primer tom, nº3
09. Terceiro Verso do mesmo tom sobre o canto chao de Contralto
10. Versos de primer tom, nº4
11. Outro Verso do mesmo tom sobre o canto chao de Contralto
12. Terceiro Verso do mesm tom sobre o canto chao de Tenor
13. Quarto Verso do mesm tom sobre o canto chao do Contrabaixo
14. Verse 12 sicut erat in principio
15. Tiento de 5º Tono de mano izquierda
16. Tiento de 1º tono de mano derecha y en medio a dos tiples
17. Tiento lleno 4º tono
18. Tiento de 1er tono de mano derecha
19. Tiento de 5º tono de mano izquierda y en medio a dos bajos
20. Tiento lleno 6º tono
21. Tiento de falsas de 2º tono
22. Pange lingua a 4
23. Dos bajos de 8º Tono
24. Tiento grande de 4º Tono
25. Tiento lleno, 5º tono, Punto Alto
26. Tiento lleno, 6º tono
27. Quinto Tiento de Medio Registro de Baxones de primer Tono
28. Tiento de medio registro de tiple de segundo tono
29. Batalha de sexto tom

In this 2 hours and 21 minutes of Iberian Organ Music on this Double Album, organist Peter de Jager says:“It was an extraordinary experience being cloistered for three days at the Monasterio de la Consolación in Palencia and given free reign on their organ (under the watchful eye of the Mother Superior), built in the 19th century but in fairly standard 17th century Iberian style. I had the chance to record virtually every piece of Iberian organ music that had intrigued me since I started looking into this magnificent repertoire several years before, especially those tientos de medio registro which I came to realize would only truly bare their soul on instruments of this type.”

Cabanilles’ famous Tiento de falsas acts as a contemplative prelude here to Peraza’s Tiento de medio registro alto, the earliest of its type recorded, and its author reputed to be the inventor of the mechanism for splitting two registers across a single keyboard, thus providing the opportunity for either treble or bass to act as a solo voice. More compact than the form was to become through the course of the 17th century, Peraza’s tiento has a beautiful contemplative simplicity, and is a pivotal piece in the history of Spanish organ music”.