Danish-German composer Dietrich Buxtehude has an extensive output of vocal music in addition to his far better known canon of organ music. The vocal music is more obscure in that it is such a mixed bag. The oratorios he wrote have gone lost, many pieces relate directly to the organ music in a way that is difficult to divine now and some of the sacred concertos he composed are less than compelling, written for afternoon lunch concerts and not meant as "serious" music. In Challenge Classics' Dieterich Buxtehude: Opera Omnia V ...
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Danish-German composer Dietrich Buxtehude has an extensive output of vocal music in addition to his far better known canon of organ music. The vocal music is more obscure in that it is such a mixed bag. The oratorios he wrote have gone lost, many pieces relate directly to the organ music in a way that is difficult to divine now and some of the sacred concertos he composed are less than compelling, written for afternoon lunch concerts and not meant as "serious" music. In Challenge Classics' Dieterich Buxtehude: Opera Omnia V: Vocal Works 2, Ton Koopman pulls together some odds and ends found littered among Buxtehude's vocal output, dusts them off, and successfully mounts a program that both represents Buxtehude's vocal music to its best advantage and a pleasing and informative listen as well.The opening work, Benedicam Dominum, BuxWV113, required the most editorial invention of the 20 works on this two-disc set; Koopman has replaced the missing soprano part in the chorus and he and timpanist Luuk...
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