Antoine Sibertin-Blanc - L'encyclopédie de l'orgue - L'orgue ibérique: Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (À l'orgue de la cathédrale de Lisbonne) (2026) [Hi-Res]

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.