Buxtehudiana #8704
…a selection of works by the great North German seventeenth-century organist Dieterich Buxtehude, played by several of his many modern champions, and a new work by Ludwig Lenel based on Buxtehude themes.
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in C, BuxWV 137 -Wolfgang Rübsam (1979 Felsberg organ/St. Martin's Church, Colmar, Switzerland)
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in E-minor, BuxWV 142 -Peter Sweeney (1976 Jones organ/St. Muredach's Cathedral, Ballina, Ireland)
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Chorale-Fantasy, Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223 -Hans Fagius (1739 Hedlund organ/Lutheran Mission Hall, Sandviken, Sweden)
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in d minor, BuxWV 161 -Walter Kraft (Kemper organ/Marienkirche, Luebeck, Germany)
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in g minor, BuxWV 149 -Michael Chapuis (1969 Kern organ/St. Maximin Church, Thionville, Alsace)
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Chorale-prelude, Ein feste Burg, BuxWV 184. Fugue in C, BuxWV 174, "Jig" -Marie-Claire Alain (1957 Beckerath organ/Moegentonder Parish Church, Denmark)
LUDWIG LENEL: Buxtehudiana, Organ Suite (1982) -Nancy Lancaster (1979 Fisk/Hoh, Saint Paul, Minnesota)
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Chorale-prelude, Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn -Wolfgang Rübsam (St. Martin's Cathedral)
We don't know the exact place or date of Buxtehude's birth, but historians set the year as 1637, making 1987 his 350th anniversary.
