[ Hyperion Organ Music / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 20 February 2010
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Christopher Herrick's acclaimed series of Buxtehude's complete organ works continues with a selection of his praeludia, toccatas, ostinato works, and canzonas, interspersed with chorale preludes and variations.
For this disc he turns to the magnificent organ of Trondheim Cathedral in Norway, originally built by Joachim Wagner (1690-1749) and restored to its former baroque glory in 1994.
Highlights from this disc include the brilliant, flamboyant Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV149. Here, as so often in Buxtehude's organ works, one can picture an organist seated at a console completely free of music and giving his imagination full rein. Also, the Chorale Fantasia on Te Deum, BuxWV218, the only plainsong-based work on this CD and one of Buxtehude's longest and grandest works for organ.
Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV149
Canzona BuxWV 166
Te Deum Laudamus, BuxWv 218
Mensch, willst du leben seliglich, BuxWV 206
Praeludium in A Minor, BuxWV153
Chorale Prelude BuxWV199 'Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott'
Nimm von uns, Herr, Du treuer Gott, BuxWV207
Toccata in G, BuxWV 165
Ciacona in E minor, BuxWV160
Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BuxWV 222
Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ,daß du gen Himmel gefahren bist, BuxWV 224
Toccata in D minor, BuxWV155
Nun lob mein Seel' den Herren (G), BuxWV 213
Praeludium in C major, BuxWV138