The wealth of Spain's and Portugal's “Golden Age” during the 16th through the 18th centuries gave rise to large and sophisticated organs and the support of composers (many monastic ones) who wrote for them. Organist Gerhard Gnann brilliantly illuminates these performances of music from the period as played on the organ built in 1779 by Pedro Llańeza of Toledo for the very rural and castle-like Iglesia Parroquial de San Cipriano in Fontiveros (in Ávila province, about halfway between the towns of Ávila and Salamanca). CORREA DE ARAUXO: Seguense Tres Gloasas sobre el Canto Llano de La Immaculatda Concepción Siguense La Canción de Tomás Crequilion Ilamada: Gaybergier Tercera Tiento de Quarto Tono Tiento de medio regristro de tiple de Octavo Tono Tiento y Discurso de medio registro de dos baxones de Octavo Tono ARAÚJO: Batalha de sexto Tom CABANILLES: Tiento partido de mano izquierda de 6. Tono JOSÉ ELIAS: Versos del 4. Tono DURÓN: Gaitilla de mano izquierda BRUNO: Tiento de 2° tono por ge sol re ut sobre la letania de la Virgen Tiento de falsas de 2° tono [por ge sol re ut] ANTÓNIO CORREA BRAGA(?): Batalha de 6° Tom |