Hans Hellsten was awarded the "Prix de Virtuosite" in Marie-Claire Alain's organ class at the Conservatory of Rueil-Malmaison (France) in 1982.
Performer Biography
Hans Hellsten, the organist on this recording, has been Professor of Organ at the Malmo Academy of Music since 1992 and tours extensively as a concert organist.
Instruments
The horizontal trumpet stops on Iberian organs, first evidenced in 1677, became widespread by 1700 due to their loud sound, ease of maintenance, and visual appeal.
Instruments
The Iberian baroque organ is characterized by horizontal trumpet stops in the façade and the division of almost all stops into bass and treble halves, allowing smaller instruments to sound larger.
Recording & Production
This recording is the first to be made on the Iberian organ in the choir of the Caroli church of Malmo, which was inaugurated on April 7, 2002, by Montserrat Torrent.
Composer Biography
Francisco Correa de Arauxo, a great genius of early Iberian organ music, was an independent and bold personality whose "Facultad Organica" from 1626 is a key source for 17th-century keyboard performance practice.
Compositional Technique
The tiento de medio registro is a type of tiento, a polyphonic musical genre, that explores the solo possibilities of divided organ stops, with Francisco Peraza likely being its originator.
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