Cabanilles: Batalles, Tientos & Passacalles

Joan Cabanilles, 1644-1712

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

Contents:

J.C. Kerll

1. Batalla Imperial

Joan Cabanilles

2. Tiento de falsas II
3. Passacalles I
4. Tiento lleno 2º tono
5. Overture: Corrente Italiana
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

Playing time: 61' 41"

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

Recording site and date:
Colegiata del Castillo de Cardona (Cataluña), Spain [06 & 09/1996];
Rel.: 03 & 05/1998 (AV).

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.):
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

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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