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Could any composer write a more joyful overture (sinfonia)–whenever, as often as he wanted? Just listen to the first few seconds of the “sinfonia” movements
There probably are snazzier titles for a CD featuring one of the world’s most exciting countertenors and rare sacred repertoire by both big names (Buxtehude,
Helmut Walcha’s sober and un-selfregarding Bach interpretations dominated the German
Have you noticed the growing trend of pianists taking up 17th-century keyboard works on the modern concert grand? Perhaps it has to do with the
In 2013 a 55-CD collection from Archiv Produktion surveyed the
As the notes point out, Buxtehude “never held a position that required him to compose vocal music,” but as these works show, he was no
Amazingly, both Channel Classics and Harmonia Mundi chose to record and release Buxtehude’s rarely-heard cantata cycle Membra Jesu nostri at virtually the same time. Your
Organ enthusiasts will appreciate this reissue of René Saorgin’s Buxtehude recordings from 1967-70, at the time a landmark project for Harmonia Mundi, and whose amazing
Organ music fans need no introduction to Harald Vogel, one of the world’s foremost performers, teachers, and proponents of historical practice in North German organ
Now that the hoopla of the 2006 “Mozart Year” is past, we are free to turn our ears–and commemorative spirit–toward another eminent and influential master,
