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Palma, St. Agusti demos (Hauptwerk 2)

live performance | midi performance | short introductions of single stops | free demo "Palma MINI"

These demos were recorded live using Hauptwerk 2 and the Palma sample set by an amateur player. (Occasional errors of the player's fingers underline the live character of the performance). The registration used reflects the historical knowledge about the stop usage. We can hear that a Spanish organ is not only its "Trompeteria" but that there is also a beauty of the flue stops.

You can hear the effect of the random pipe detuning feature of Hauptwerk which was set a bit higher than usual to produce the effect of real world organ, which is never perfectly in tune. This effect may be turned off by user if not desired.

Antonio Carreira, Lisbon, c.1525-1597, Canção a quatro glosada. (6 megs)
Orgue d'alt: Octava tapada 4'.

Anonymous, Cancion "De la virgen que parió." (2.8 MB)
From the Venegas de Henestrosa publication, "Libro de Cifra Nueva," 1557. Orgue
d'alt: Flautat de fusta 8', Octava tapada 4', Tolosana.

Cabanilles, Tiento 16, lleno, por B cuadrado. (4.4 megs)
Cabanilles' best-known piece (and his shortest tiento). The rhythm of the scalar passages is an experiment, supposed to sound improvised. Orgue major: Flautat 8' x 2, Octava 4' x 2, Dozena, Quinzena, Alemanya, Simbalet, Nasart 19 1-1/3'. Orgue d'alt: Flautat de fusta 8', Octava 4', Quinzena II, Plens.

Cabanilles, Tiento 89, de mà dreta, de batalla. (8 MB)
How to play a batalla without a reed, as Cabanilles usually did (and his contemporaries always did): Orgue major: lh: Flautat 8', Octava 4'; rh: Flautat 8',
Octava 4', Cornetillas.

Francisco Correa de Arauxo. Tiento de medio registro de baxon de Sexto tono. (4.7 MB) 
Published 1620. Orgue major: lh: octava 4' x II, tolosana; rh: flautat 8'.

Cabezon, Tiento 25 (5 MB)
Orgue d'alt: Flautat de fusta 8', Octava tapada 4'.

Joaquín Nebra, Aragon (1709-1782),  Sonata 5. (6.8 MB)
Lenguetaria.

Cabanilles, Tiento 2 de falsas. (5.2 MB)
Orgue major: flautat 8' x 2. The effect of random pipe detuning is very prominent here (e.g. the very first tone played).

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata, K 328. (5.2 MB)
This sonata is for 2-manual organ, marked "org" and "fl." Orgue d'alt: Flautat de fusta 8', Octava 4'. Cadireta: Flautat 4'.
 

Midi demonstrations

The midi files used to record these demos originated at www.classicalarchives.com or at www.kunstderfuge.com. These midi files were the same as I used to make the Santanyi virtual organ demos.

You can listen to the mp3 performance below, or, you can download the wav files packed in a single rar package (50 MB). Prior to packing, the files were downsampled to 44.1kHz/16bit resolution because of the size of the files. The original performance was done using the 48kHz/24bit samples.

Cabanilles: Tiento de batalla partido de mano derecha
RH: II. man. 2 Flautats, Octava, Quinzena, Simbalet, Clarins d'octava
LH: III. man. Flautat de fusta, Octava, Quinzena

Cabanilles: Tiento sobre Ave Maris Stella
Various cornet settings:
LH: II. man.: Flautat doble, Octava.
RH: I. man.: Flautat, Fl. tapat, Octava, Nazard
II. man.: Flautat doble, Octava, Nazarts, Nazart 19a (at the end + Cornetilla)
III. man.: Flautat de fusta, Octava tapada, Tapadet, Tolosana

Cabanilles: Tiento XV - Batalla imperial Punt Baix
II. man.: Trompa ae batalla, Clarins, Flautat de cara
Intermezzo on III. solo (with Cromorn + Tolosana)
Plenum on II. (without Simbalet), later with the Trompa ae battalla again.

Cabanilles: Tiento XVIII de falzas
1. II. man: Flautat de cara + Flautat doble
2. III. man.: Flautat de fusta
3. II. man.: Flautat de cara + Flautat doble

Francisco de Peraza: Tiento de medio registro
LH: I. Flautat tapad
RH: II. Trompa magna, + 2 Flautats
 

J. S. Bach pieces recorded using J. Pressler virtual midi performance.

These pieces were recorded using Hauptwerk 1 version of the sample set.

J. S. Bach: BWV 676, Allein Gott in der Hoeh' sei Ehr  (mp3)

  • I. Flautat tapad, Octava, Quinzena (octave lower)
  • II. Flautat, Octava
  • III. Cromorn B+D, Tolosana B+D, Flautat de f., Tapadet

J. S. Bach: BWV 684, Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (mp3)

  • I. Flautat, Octava
  • II. Flautat, Flautat, Octava, Octava, Tolosana, Cornetilla.
  • III. Flautat de f., Octava tapada, Tapadet,

J. S. Bach: BWV 595, Concerto in C (mp3)

  • Plenum (Organo Mayor  vs. Cadireta)

Single stop presentations

Short and lovely intonations performed live by myself using Hauptwerk 2 and MIDI organ console. These are several seconds (easy to download) mp3 presentations of individual stops or their "usual" combinations.

Teclat d'Alt

Organo Mayor

Cadireta

Palma, St. Agusti MINI sample set  - Free download!

You can try the sample set yourself. As a free gift from Sonus Paradisi, you can download the MINI (cut down) version of Palma. After you download the RAR archive from here, you can install it into your Hauptwerk from its menu. Two organ installation packages appear on your computer, no. 352 and 355. These two packages contain the Palma MINI sample set. The set contains only 4 stops taken from the Teclat d'Alt and only a bit more than two octaves of each (from the c0 to e2) NOT the full compass!!! In addition, you will get the Palma tuning chart installed among the other temperaments to be used with the sample set (recommended). The samples were downsampled to 16bit and 44.1 kHz only. The full set is available in 24 bit and 48kHz.

This free MINI sample set is ment to provide a "preview" of the full version, it is not designed to be a stand alone instrument. You can taste the timbre of the stops, you can check the technical brilliancy but you can hardly use it to play a real music. Although