Various Composers - The Soul of the Spanish Organ (Maurizio Maffezzoli)

Information

1. Francisco Correa de Arauxo - Tiento: No. 22
2. Francisco Correa de Arauxo - Tiento: No. 29
3. Francisco Correa de Arauxo - Tiento: No. 68–69
4. Antonio de Cabezón - Ave maris stella
5. Antonio de Cabezón - Salve Regina
6. Francisco Correa de Arauxo - Dic nobis Mariae
7. Antonio de Cabezón - Diferencias sobre el Canto del Cavallero
8. Pablo Bruna - Pange lingua
9. Francis Chapelet - Tiento de medio registro de tiple de quarto tono
10. Felipe Adrian Rojero - Laudate Dominum

Maurizio Maffezzoli, organ

Michael Guastalla, Luca Buzzavi & Enrico Fazzi, voices

Elisabetta Pallucchi, alto

Date: 2025

Label: Da Vinci Classics

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In Spain from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, the tiento (or tento in Portuguese) was an instrumental form similar to the Italian ricercare. While Italian composers wrote mainly for keyboard or lute, Spanish musicians developed the tiento extensively for both keyboard instruments and the vihuela. Derived from the verb tentar—meaning “to test” or “to experiment”—the term reflects both the performer’s technical challenge and the instrument’s expressive potential. Organ tientos evolved into highly structured, contrapuntal works of great virtuosity, while vihuela tientos retained a freer, more improvisatory character rich in ornamentation and invention.

Maurizio Maffezzoli, born in Como in 1974, is an Italian organist, harpsichordist, and conductor. A graduate of the “F. Morlacchi” Conservatory in Perugia, he studied organ, harpsichord, and music pedagogy with W. Van De Pol, A. Fedi, and A. M. Freschi, later refining his skills with renowned teachers such as Tagliavini and Vogel. Maffezzoli has performed widely across Europe, Mexico, and Japan, and has served as visiting professor at major conservatories in Mexico City, Bydgoszcz, and Warsaw. He directs choirs in the Marche region, records for Tactus and Da Vinci, presides over Organi–Art & Borghi, and curates the long-running “Terra d’Organi Antichi” festival.