Choral, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis settings, Buxtehude (composer)
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Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 1
Christopher Herrick (organ of Helsingør Cathedral, Denmark)
Herrick displays great energy and a keen ear for registrational variety —
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Buxtehude - Organ Works 5
Opera Omnia X
Ton Koopman (The Bielfeldt organ (1736), St. Wilhadi, Stade, Germany)
For those new to Buxtehude's organ works both the programming and the instrument make these discs the ideal hopping on point. Plaintive chorale elaborations supply contemplative respite from... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. A Baroque Christmas
Vox Luminis, Ricercar Consort, Le Fenice, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Akademia, La Pastorella, Syntgama Amici, Mare Nostrum, Ensemble Faux Bourdon, Les Agremens
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Herrick is at his most persuasive in the chorale-embroidering preludes...commanding in the large-scale Magnificat Fantasia, to-the-point in the extended fugue which concludes BuxWV 145, and... —
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Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 5
Christopher Herrick (Aubertin organ of Mariager Klosterkirke, Denmark)
Outstanding competition and the revisiting of material must in no way prove a barrier to anyone with even a vague interest in Buxtehude's organ music, for this is a simply splendid disc...Above... —
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Masaaki Suzuki plays Buxtehude
Masaaki Suzuki (playing the Klapmeyer Organ of St Nicolai Church, Altenbruch)
on the Wilde-Schnitger Organ of St Jacobi Church, Lüdingworth
Suzuki strikes a perfect accord between an expressively singing solo line and its fastidiously-shaped accompaniment. —
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The preludes afford Koopman his most exhilarating flights of fancy, but his ever-present unwillingness to 'play safe' stamps a thought-provoking individuality on an ongoing series which prefers... —
