Buxtehude: Complete Organ Music [Box set]

Dietrich Buxtehude (Composer), Walter Kraft (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Walter Kraft
• Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude
• Audio CD (October 26, 2004)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 6
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Vox (Classical)
• ASIN: B0006SSNIW
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEAUTIFUL AS WELL AS REFERENCE, March 24, 2008

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L. E. Roberts "Larry" (Escondido, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buxtehude: Complete Organ Music (Audio CD)

As one completely devoted to the organ works of Bach (and of others), I highly recommend this recording. I have loved Buxtehude's organ works for many years, and had certain recordings on LP (old Mercury Living Presence of Alf Linder and the LP of Walcha's "Orfelmeister vor Bach,") which are my favorites. Neither, however, is available on CD. While Walter Kraft is not Helmut Walcha or Alf Linder (an objective observation, not a qualitative one), he is not an average, or even a good organist. He is a superb organist. Listening to this album not only brought me back to organ music that I love, it introduced me to someone who plays it differently (not worse) than those I was familiar with. I knew Walter Kraft's playing from some Bach LP's I have hidden away in my multitude of old recordings. I prefer Walcha and Karl Richter for Bach, which does not mean that I will throw away any Jeanne Demessieux, E. Power Biggs, or Simon Preston recordings I have, let alone my Schweitzer LP's. This album is not only the best recording available of all Buxtehude's organ music, it stands by itself due to the virtuosity of Mr. Kraft. It is great music, well played, and eminently listenable.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fundamental, March 29, 2007

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S. Roberto Barocio Delgado "Sam Barocio" (MEXICO, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buxtehude: Complete Organ Music (Audio CD)

Not always have we got a clear notion as to the extent in which Buxtehude influenced the work of J.S. Bach. Neither is a Buxtehude's full collection available in just one album at such an accesible price. This is an impeccable remasterisation of a celebrated performance of Walter Kraft on the Lubeck Cathedral organ: an instrument very similar to those Buxtehude wrote for.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Die Orgelwerke Buxtehudes minus 2, July 6, 2006

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David G. Lebut Jr. "Lebutzke" (Gilbert, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This is by far (with the exception of the set performed by Harald Vogel) the best recording of Buxtehude's complete output for Organ. With two exceptions (not included in this recording are the Praeludium C-Dur BuxWV 138 and the Kanzonette a-Moll BuxWV 225), Walter Kraft here records the entire opus for Organ of his illustrious predecessor at the post of Organist and the Marienkirche zu Luebeck--the Danish/German Organist Dietrich Buxtehude.