[ Hyperion Organ Music / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 10 March 2011
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The latest volume of Christopher Herrick's acclaimed series of Buxtehude's complete organ works comes from Paris and the admired organ of St-Louis-en-l'Île - formally opened in 2005, and based on the work of Zacharias Hildebrant (1688-1757). As with previous discs, it includes a selection of the composer's praeludia, ostinato works, canzonettas and canzonas, interspersed with chorale preludes, chorale fantasias and variations.
Highlights include the magnificent Praeludium in D minor, BuxWV140, which is among the finest and most striking examples of the genre, and a particularly beautiful and contrasting set of chorale preludes.
"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 he discovers his inner Koopman-esque wild man at the start of the F sharp minor Praeludium whose key elicits a blaze of bullish 'attitude' from the organ's not-quite-equal temperament." BBC Music
"Always captivating and frequently entertaining as he tosses off ornaments and decorative figures with the panache of a circus act, he communicates an enthusiasm for the music which never stoops to poor taste or anything less than thorough musical integrity. Always an invigorating communicator, he is as compelling in his dazzlingly articulated virtuoso displays as he is in the delicate chorale preludes." Gramophone
Praeludium in D Minor, BuxWV140
Danket dem Herren, (3 var.) BuxWV 181
Canzonetta in G major, BuxWV172
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BuxWV163
Canzona in E minor BuxWV 169
Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort, BuxWV185
Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, BuxWV212
Praeludium in F Major, BuxWV145
Herr Jesu Christ, ich weiss gar wohl, BuxWV 193
Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BuxWV189
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BuxWV186
Puer natus in Bethlehem, BuxWV217
Praeludium in C major, BuxWV136
Chorale Prelude BuxWV200 'Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott'
Canzona in G major, BuxWV170
Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn, BuxWV191
Praeambulum in F sharp minor, BuxWv 146