New organ recordings by maestro López on piano - Panguelingua Felix Maximo Lopez piano recordings

Cochuchi
Aug 9
1 min read

Updated: Aug 10

🎹✨ Discovering Félix Máximo López – “Panguelingua 1” ✨🎹

Here’s a little‑known two gems of Spanish heritage: “Panguelingua 1” & "Panguelingia 2" by Félix Máximo López (1742‑1821), chamber organist to King Charles IV and a key figure in bridging the Classical and galant styles for keyboard in Spain.

Pianist and musicologist Alberto Cobo performs the piece of Panguelingua Felix Maximo Lopez piano recordings using his own carefully researched edition, directly based on the original manuscript at the National Library of Spain. What makes this edition special? Cobo scrupulously preserves every note, rhythmic grouping, pitch, and graphic detail as López wrote them. He even retains the historical clefs, such as the occasional alto clef, without modern substitutions. Additionally, Cobo adds a pedal staff for the organ, clarifying the bass voice for contemporary performers—but always in the spirit of the original manuscript.

This level of paleographic and musical fidelity allows us to approach the work exactly as López intended: a polyphonic reimagining of the Gregorian chant “Pange lingua”, with refined counterpoint and genuine lyricism. Though conceived for organ, the piano performance of Panguelingua Felix Maximo Lopez piano recordings brings out the piece’s melodic and harmonic richness in a fresh light.

🎧 If you enjoy discovering hidden repertoire presented with historic rigor, this video perfectly demonstrates how scholarly editing and sensitive performance can restore music to its authentic brilliance.

📽️ Video: “Panguelingua 1” – Félix Máximo López, performed by Alberto Cobo