Complete Works 10/Organ Works 5 [Import]

Koopman (Artist), Ton:org............ (Artist), Nicolaus Bruhns (Composer, Conductor), Dietrich Buxtehude (Composer), Ton Koopman (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ton Koopman
• Conductor: Nicolaus Bruhns
• Composer: Nicolaus Bruhns, Dietrich Buxtehude
• Audio CD (October 13, 2009)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Challenge Classics
• ASIN: B001UJSUMU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #421,969 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buxtehude Rocks!, May 25, 2009

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Paul Van de Water (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Organ Works V - Buxtehude: Opera Omnia X (MP3 Download)

These two discs constitute the tenth volume in Ton Koopman's series devoted to the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) and the fifth and final installment of Buxtehude's organ works. They are recorded on the organ at St. Wilhaldi in Stade, Germany, near Hamburg. The organ is a fine north German instrument that slightly post-dates Buxtehude's time--having been built by Erasmus Biefeldt in the 1730s and restored by Jurgen Ahrend in 1990. The album contains nine freely composed preludes in the virtuosic "stylus phantasticus," written for large organ with at least two manuals and pedal, plus eleven chorale-based works. One of the latter--the Te Deum, BuxWV 218--is described by Kerala Snyder as "one of [Buxtehude's] grandest and certainly his longest keyboard work." As a bonus Koopman includes four pieces that represent the complete surviving organ music of Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697), perhaps Buxtehude's most gifted student (excluding, of course, Bach, who spent three months with Buxtehude in 1705). Koopman's enthusiasm makes the music come alive and reveals Buxtehude as far more than Bach's greatest predecessor. The recording captures the organ and its venue with utmost clarity and realism. Few recent discs have given me such enjoyment.