Antonio de Cabezón, “The Spanish Bach”, was among the most important composers of his time and the first major Iberian keyboard composer. Blind from childhood he was a musician at the court of Charles the V since 1526. HR Recordings is proud to present the complete recording of his keyboard music in several volumes performed by Javier Jiménez at some of the most beautiful Spanish historical organs.

The program chosen for this album shows a selection of works of Iberian music from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries that, with the title “Españoleta”, addresses the most outstanding musical forms and composers in Renaissance and Baroque Spain, also exploiting the sound resources offered by the Iberian organ in its most original version: a short octave keyboard, split register and battle trumpeting. The program opens with the entrance of clarines before playing songs, an anonymous work collected by Martín i Coll that serves as an exordium for the rest of the works.