Name: Buxtehude - Chamber Music 1
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A spirit of playfulness invades much of Koopmans' guiding spirit, but this is true chamber music - deserving to be as well-known and cherished as the quartets of Beethoven - and the lute's is... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 4th Oct 2010
Catalogue No: CC72251
Label: Challenge Classics
Series: Buxtehude Opera Omnia
Length: 58 minutes

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Buxtehude: Sonata in C for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 266: Sonata in C for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 266

Work length7:54

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Ton Koopman, Jonathan Manson, Catherine Manson, Mike Fentross, David Rabinovich
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Buxtehude: Sonata in a for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 272: Sonata in a for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 272

Work length6:50

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Ton Koopman, Mike Fentross, David Rabinovich, Catherine Manson, Jonathan Manson
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Buxtehude: Sonata in D for viola da gamba, violone and basso continuo BuxWV 267: Sonata in D for viola da gamba, violone and basso continuo BuxWV 267

Work length7:53

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Ton Koopman, Mike Fentross, Catherine Manson, David Rabinovich, Christine Sticher, Jonathan Manson
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Buxtehude: Sonata (with Suite) in B flat for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 273: Sonata (with Suite) in B flat for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 273

Work length13:12

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Ton Koopman, Mike Fentross, Jonathan Manson, David Rabinovich, Catherine Manson
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Buxtehude: Sonata in d (for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo) BuxWV Anh.5: Sonata in d (for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo) BuxWV Anh.5

Work length2:58

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Ton Koopman, Mike Fentross, Jonathan Manson, David Rabinovich, Catherine Manson
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Buxtehude: Sonata in G for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 271: Sonata in G for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 271

Work length8:30

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Ton Koopman, Jonathan Manson, Mike Fentross, Catherine Manson, David Rabinovich
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Buxtehude: Sonata in D for viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 268: Sonata in D for viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 268

Work length4:35

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Ton Koopman, David Rabinovich, Mike Fentross, Jonathan Manson, Catherine Manson
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Buxtehude: Sonata in F for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 269: Sonata in F for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV 269

Work length6:52

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Ton Koopman, Jonathan Manson, Catherine Manson, David Rabinovich, Mike Fentross
members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

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Opera Omnia Xll is the latest release in the acclaimed cycle of the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude featuring the award winning combination of renowned early music specialist Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. It is the first volume to be devoted to the composer’s lesser-known but highly-rewarding chamber music and concentrates on sonatas from manuscript sources.

Ton Koopman is one of the world’s foremost early music specialists and directors, and his recording of the complete Bach Cantatas on Challenge Classics received worldwide acclaim. In recent years he has undertaken the daunting task of recording all of the music of his compatriot, the early baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude. As president of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Society, Ton Koopman is considered to be one of the world’s leading authorities on his music. Amongst a string of accolades for previous recordings in the series Opera Omnia X, (CC72249), was a Gramophone “Editor’s Choice” Dieterich Buxtehude’s chamber works today count among the least known of his compositions. They were already forgotten soon after 1700, despite the fact that two thirds of Buxtehude’s chamber sonatas, unlike any other category in the composer’s creative output, were published during his lifetime. The publication of sonatas indicates that there was a market for this repertoire in the later 17th century. Moreover, the publication of two sets of such works suggests that the fame of the Lübeck master and the success of the first set must have created the demand for a second. However, the primary reason for these works getting out of fashion by the time of Buxtehude’s death was their unconventional instrumental scoring and, more importantly, the triumphant rise of the modern Italian trio sonata by Corelli, Albinoni, and others in the early 18th century.

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Christmas 2010

A spirit of playfulness invades much of Koopmans' guiding spirit, but this is true chamber music - deserving to be as well-known and cherished as the quartets of Beethoven - and the lute's is one voice among supremely creative conversational equals.

January 2011

The performances are fittingly accomplished - naturally virtuoso, warmly recorded and paced with acute awareness of the music's rhetorical ebb and flow. Violinist Catherine Manson has an easy but firm grasp of line, with a knowledge of how to keep it active and taut.

March 2011

Throughout the entire disc, the impression is of distinguished soloists relishing the demands of their respective instrumental parts rather than conforming to a pre-ordained framework...This is wonderfully life-affirming music-making. There is an inexhaustible supply of spontaneity and wit here, both in the music and the performances.

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