Coelho: Flores de Musica, Volume 1 | Inventa Records | INV1009

Coelho: Flores de Musica, Volume 1

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Total playing time [63:05]

Sérgio Silva (organ)

Mariana Moldão, soprano
Maria de Fátima Nunes, mezzo-soprano

Elvas Cathedral, Portugal
Main organ, Pascoal Caetano Oldovino (1762)
Positive Organ, Pascoal Caetano Oldovino (1758)

Flores de Musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa, is the only known work of Portugese composer Manuel Rodrigues Coelho. Printed in Lisbon in 1620 and boasting more than five hundred pages, Coelho’s Flores de Musica is one of the largest music works printed in the seventeenth century. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of its original publication, a new edition in three volumes has been published with the research being used to inform this major new recording series.

Organist Sérgio Silva performs on the 1762 Pascoal Caetano Oldovino organ of Elvas Cathedral, where Manuel Rodrigues Coelho started his musical studies and worked as an organist. Silva is joined by soprano Mariana Moldão and mezzo-soprano Maria de Fátima Nunes for the sung versos, which are accompanied on the smaller cabinet organ located near the chancel of the cathedral and built around the same time and by the same organ builder as the main instrument.

Album Booklet (PDF)

'Sérgio Silva brings years of devoted musicological research to this repertoire. He plays cleanly and rhythmically, with an unerring sense of purpose.' 'An important [...] release, which helps to fill in yet another gap in our collective knowledge.'

- Gramophone

'Sérgio Silva brings years of devoted musicological research to this repertoire. He plays cleanly and rhythmically, with an unerring sense of purpose.' 'An important [...] release, which helps to fill in yet another gap in our collective knowledge.'
Gramophone

Credits
© 2022 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2022 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. INV1009
Producer & Editor: Tiago Manuel da Hora
Engineer: Jorge Simões da Hora
Artistic Director: João Vaz
Executive Producer: Adam Binks
EAN: 5060262793404
Cover image: Detail from Main Organ Elvas Cathedral, Portugal
Release date: 7 October 2022