BUXTEHUDE: OPERA OMNIA IV (ORGAN WORKS II) - TON KOOPMAN

01. Toccata in F BuxWV 157 04:14
02. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BuxWV 184 03:52
03. Fuga in C BuxWV 174 03:06
04. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BuxWV 223 06:52
05. Nun komm der heiden Heiland BuxWV 211 02:00
06. Puer Natus in Bethlehem BuxWV 217 00:57
07. Passacaglia in d BuxWV 161 06:55
08. Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam Bux WV 180 02:47
09. Ach Gott und Herr Bux WV 177 02:01
10. Toccata in G BuxWV 164 02:40
11. Canzona in G BuxWV 170 03:20
12. Danket dem Herren BuxWV 181 02:21
13. Der Tag, der ist so freundenreich BuxWV 182 05:40
14. Canzonetta in gBux WV 173 01:30
15. Fuga in G BuxWV 175 03:03
16. Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ BuxWV 188 08:21
17. Praeludium in g BuxWV 163 06:54

Dieterich Buxtehude's organ works are his most significant contribution to the history of music. They consist of a comprehensive corpus of just 90 compositions, of which more than half are chorale settings. However, these are mostly shorter than the preludes, toccatas and other freely conceived pieces, so these last represent a more substantial share of his entire output.

A large part of it is intended for a tuning with pure thirds and impure fifths, meantone tuning. The majority of these works must have been composed before 1683, since in that year the organs in the Marienkirche, where Buxtehude worked, were converted from the old mean-tone tuning to the more modern Werckmeister tuning. So for these earlier works the choice of a historically interesting organ in meantone tuning, such as the organ by Lüdingworth, seems plausible.

Dieterich Buxtehude (Dietrich, Diderich) was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the baroque period. His organ works comprise a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and church services. He wrote in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. Organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck for most of his life, Buxtehude is considered today to be the leading German composer in the time between Schütz and Bach.

Wilde/Schnitger Organ (1599/1682), St. Jacobi Kirche, Lüdingworth (D)