L'encyclopédie de l'orgue - L'orgue ibérique: Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (À l'orgue de la cathédrale de Lisbonne)

Part of L’Encyclopédie de l’orgue, this 1970 Erato digital release highlights early Iberian keyboard music, placing Portuguese composer Manuel Rodrigues Coelho within his 17th-century European context alongside contemporaries like Correa de Arauxo and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Settled in Lisbon as a professor in 1961 and appointed titular organist in 1965, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc contributed significantly to rediscovering the wonders of Portuguese classical organ music after a long decline. Here, he performs liturgical excerpts from Coelho’s 1620 collection Flores de música - including several Kyrie settings, Ave maris stella, and tentos - on the Flentrop grand organ of the Lisbon Cathedral.