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Buxtehude: Complete Organ Music

Buxtehude: Complete Organ Music
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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Praeludium
  2. Te Deum laudamus
  3. Te Martyratum candidatus
  4. Tu devicto mortis acuelo
  5. Pleni sunt coeli et terra
  6. Toccata
  7. Fugue
  8. Prelude
  9. Fugue
  10. Ciaccona
  11. Prelude
  12. Fugue

Disc 2:

  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue
  3. Adagio
  4. Prelude
  5. Fugue
  6. Adagio
  7. Prelude
  8. Fugue
  9. Prelude
  10. Allegro
  11. Fugue
  12. Prelude
  13. Fugue
  14. Adagio
  15. Prelude
  16. Fugue
  17. Prelude
  18. Fugue
  19. Prelude
  20. Fugue
  21. Allegro
  22. Prelude
  23. Fugue
  24. Presto
  25. Adagio

Disc 3:

  1. Prelude
  2. Fugue
  3. Allegro
  4. Prelude
  5. Grave
  6. Vivace
  7. con discretione
  8. Prelude
  9. Fugue
  10. Praeambulum
  11. Fugue
  12. Prelude
  13. Fugue
  14. Prelude
  15. Fughetta
  16. Fugue 1
  17. Fugue 2
  18. Prelude
  19. Fugue
  20. Adagio

Disc 4:

  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. I
  6. II
  7. III
  8. I
  9. II
  10. III

Disc 5:

  1. Magnificat
  2. Versus
  3. Versus 5 alla duodecima
  4. Praeludium
  5. Double
  6. Sarabande
  7. Courante
  8. Gigue

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #34661 in Music
  • Released on: 2004-10-26
  • Number of discs: 6
  • Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

BEAUTIFUL AS WELL AS REFERENCE5
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.

A Fundamental4
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.

Die Orgelwerke Buxtehudes minus 25
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.