The story of the young Johann Sebastian Bach walking hundreds of miles to hear Dietrich Buxtehude play the organ is familiar, but a flourishing trend among European historical-performance ensembles toward the performance and recording of Buxtehude's sacred music is showing that the relationship between Bach and Buxtehude went deeper than just a monumental style in organ music. Consider the Buxtehude cantata Jesu meine Freude, BuxWV 60 (Jesus, My Joy), recorded here, based on the same chorale as Bach's famous motet and ...
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The story of the young Johann Sebastian Bach walking hundreds of miles to hear Dietrich Buxtehude play the organ is familiar, but a flourishing trend among European historical-performance ensembles toward the performance and recording of Buxtehude's sacred music is showing that the relationship between Bach and Buxtehude went deeper than just a monumental style in organ music. Consider the Buxtehude cantata Jesu meine Freude, BuxWV 60 (Jesus, My Joy), recorded here, based on the same chorale as Bach's famous motet and seeming at least possibly to have been its model. More generally, the emotional fervor of Bach's religious works, expressed in devices borrowed from the realm of Italian opera, is everywhere in evidence in this collection of Buxtehude cantatas and motets. The individual building blocks in Buxtehude's case are smaller (except in the cantata Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, O Herr, BuxWV 41, which one might easily take for a Bach cantata), but his expressive imagination is operating in the same...
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