Dietrich Buxtehude's time has come. After decades in which he was viewed as a precursor to Bach, or perhaps as the answer to the trivia question of which organist the young Bach walked hundreds of miles to hear, his works are now subjects of several major recording projects, and even a 1957 LP traversal of the composer's organ music by Walter Kraft has been unearthed and reissued in box-set form. Competing series of organ music are underway, including one by Dutch early music veteran Ton Koopman; another is inaugurated by ...
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Dietrich Buxtehude's time has come. After decades in which he was viewed as a precursor to Bach, or perhaps as the answer to the trivia question of which organist the young Bach walked hundreds of miles to hear, his works are now subjects of several major recording projects, and even a 1957 LP traversal of the composer's organ music by Walter Kraft has been unearthed and reissued in box-set form. Competing series of organ music are underway, including one by Dutch early music veteran Ton Koopman; another is inaugurated by this disc from well-established British performer Christopher Herrick, the former Westminster Abbey organist who has issued a popular series of Organ Fireworks discs. That gives you an idea as to his approach. Performing on a magnificent instrument at Denmark's Helsingřr Cathedral, he delivers sharp, pleasing performances that stop just short of being flashy. In the larger preludes, toccatas, and polyphonic pieces (the older canzona and ciaccona are in evidence along with the fugue)...
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Add this copy of Buxtehude: the Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1 to cart. $28.10, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by HYPERION RECORDS.