Buxtehude: Complete Chamber Music

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Koopman has assembled an ensemble of intelligent and intensely musical collaborators, and their individual styles mesh well. Moreover, the recorded sound is warm and intimate, but still clear,... — Fanfare, March/April 2022 More…

Release Date: 3rd Sep 2021
Catalogue No: CC72890
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Excerpt, Buxtehude: Sonata in C major, BuxWV266

Work length7:54

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Buxtehude: Sonata in A minor, BuxWV272

Work length6:50

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Buxtehude: Sonata in D BuxWV 267

Work length7:53

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Buxtehude: Sonata in B flat major, BuxWV273

Work length13:12

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Buxtehude: Sonata in D minor for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo BuxWV Anh. 5

Work length2:58

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Buxtehude: Sonata in G major, BuxWV271

Work length8:30

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Buxtehude: Sonata in D for viola da gamba and basso continuo, BuxWV268

Work length4:35

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Buxtehude: Sonata in F major, BuxWV269

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Buxtehude: Seven Sonatas, Op. 1 BuxWV 252-258

Work length59:49

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Sonata in F op. 1 nr. 1 BuxWV 252

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Sonata in G op. 1 nr. 2 BuxWV 253

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Sonata in a op. 1 nr. 3 BuxWV 254

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Sonata in B op. 1 nr. 4 BuxWV 255

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Sonata in C op. 1 nr. 5 BuxWV 256

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Sonata in d op. 1 nr. 6 BuxWV 257

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Sonata in e op. 1 nr. 7 BuxWV 258

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Buxtehude: Seven Trio Sonatas, Op. 2, BuxWV 259-265

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Sonata in B flat op.2 nr.1 BuxWV 259

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Sonata in D op.2 nr.2 BuxWV 260

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Sonata in g op.2 nr. 3 BuxWV 261

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Sonata in c op.2 nr. 4 BuxWV 262

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Sonata in A op.2 nr. 5 BuxWV 263

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Sonata in E op.2 nr. 6 BuxWV 264

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Sonata in F op.2 nr. 7 BuxWV 265

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This superb collection of Buxtehude's entire chamber music output is extracted from Ton Koopman's award-winning recordings of Buxtehude's Complete Works.

Dieterich Buxtehude's chamber works today counts among the least known of his compositions. They were already forgotten soon after 1700, and this despite the fact that two third of Buxtehude's chamber sonatas, unlike any other category in the composers 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 Lbeck 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.

Buxtehude's chamber music repertoire consists of altogether twenty-two works. All of Buxtehude's chamber works present highly sophisticated compositions that belong among the most attractive and technically most demanding examples of the genre of ensemble sonata, then still in its infancy. They resemble in many ways the six sonatas of the Hortus musicus (Hamburg, 1688) by Buxtehude's colleague and friend, Johann Adam Reinken, organist at St. Catherine's Church in Hamburg. But like Reinken's pieces, they were influenced by Italian models, especially the instrumental sonatas by the Venetian composer Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690), which were circulating widely also in Northern Europe. At the same time, they deeply reflect the improvisational, fanciful, expressive and colorful mannerisms of Buxtehude and his school, which the writer Johann Mattheson in 1739 referred to as "stylus fantasticus".

Artists:

Catherine Manson - Violin Ton Koopman David Rabinovich - Violin Jonathan Manson - Viola Mike Fentross - Lute Christine Sticher - Violone

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March/April 2022

Koopman has assembled an ensemble of intelligent and intensely musical collaborators, and their individual styles mesh well. Moreover, the recorded sound is warm and intimate, but still clear, and the eminent musicologist Christoph Wolff has supplied a concise, readable, and erudite liner essay. Highly recommended.

Buxtehude: Complete Chamber Music

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