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.
