Ton Koopman's ongoing series of Buxtehude's complete works, with the organ music played by the master himself, continues to be a pleasure for the general listener as well as an entry in specialist discussions in issues of Buxtehude performance. Koopman's program is performed on an organ in the Jacobi Church in Hamburg, probably the nearest thing to an authentic instrument, for the organs used by Buxtehude himself at points farther north have been lost. It's an agile, colorful instrument, bright rather than massive, with ...
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Ton Koopman's ongoing series of Buxtehude's complete works, with the organ music played by the master himself, continues to be a pleasure for the general listener as well as an entry in specialist discussions in issues of Buxtehude performance. Koopman's program is performed on an organ in the Jacobi Church in Hamburg, probably the nearest thing to an authentic instrument, for the organs used by Buxtehude himself at points farther north have been lost. It's an agile, colorful instrument, bright rather than massive, with sharp contrasts among its quite various registers. Annotator Christoph Wolff, who has a rare talent among musicologists for making unfamiliar material come alive for the general listeners, stresses the improvisatory roots of Buxtehude's keyboard style. The music sounds somewhat like Bach and can be made to sound a lot like Bach by performers who are reasoning from what came next. Koopman avoids this. You can compare his lively, somewhat fantastic reading of the the Praeludium in C...
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