This double album, with more than 100 minutes of music, actually represents an excerpt from a group of works that ran much longer in concert: up to three-and-a-half hours. The Seven Responses of the title are just that: compositional responses to Dietrich Buxtehude's oratorio Membra Jesu nostri (1680), a work of Bach-like scope consisting of seven cantatas, each addressed to a single limb of the crucified Jesus. The seven new works alternated in performance by the choir The Crossing with the cantatas of the Buxtehude work. ...
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This double album, with more than 100 minutes of music, actually represents an excerpt from a group of works that ran much longer in concert: up to three-and-a-half hours. The Seven Responses of the title are just that: compositional responses to Dietrich Buxtehude's oratorio Membra Jesu nostri (1680), a work of Bach-like scope consisting of seven cantatas, each addressed to a single limb of the crucified Jesus. The seven new works alternated in performance by the choir The Crossing with the cantatas of the Buxtehude work. That aspect is lost here, although broadly speaking, the new pieces reflect off of Buxtehude's mid-Baroque style in one way or another. Each composer was given the latitude to work with his or her own librettists, resulting in a great variety of treatments. Consider Ad cor, by the late Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, where mockery is the aspect of the crucifixion addressed: the composer sets fragments of text like "I laugh at you mockingly." The composers come from many...
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