Buxtehude sacred vocal works
2014; Oxford University Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/em/cau081
ISSN1741-7260
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoAlthough Dieterich Buxtehude was primarily an organist and was never obliged to compose vocal music in any of his positions, there are approximately 120 such pieces among his surviving works. However, unlike his organ music, which already had its revival in the first half of the 20th century and has become standard repertory for most organists, his vocal œuvre has, until recently, received only little attention. The most prominent exception to this rule is the cycle of seven cantatas, Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV75. When writing his ‘Buxtehude on CD: a tercentenary survey’ in 2007 (Early Music, xxxv/3 (2007), pp.385–96), Peter Holman listed eleven recordings of the work. At least eight additional ones have been released since then, featuring performances by Alexander Weimann (Atma acd22563, rec 2007), Hans-Christoph Rademann (Carus 83234, rec 2007), Fretwork and The Purcell Quartet (Chandos chan0775, 2010), Christopher Eastwood (Herald havp382, 2013), Jörg Breiding (Rondeau rop7006, 2014) and Daniel Hyde (Opus Arte oacd9023D, 2014), as well as those by Ton Koopman and Sigiswald Kuijken—the two new recordings of the work considered in this review. Together, these make the cantata cycle one of the most recorded pieces of 17th-century sacred music, even overtaking Carissimi’s Historia di Jephte.
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