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This is the premiere recording J.S. Bach’s John Passion heard for the first time within its original liturgical context. This recording marks the return of Dunedin Consort’s star studded cast including, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Robert Davies, Joanne Lunn and Clare Wilkinson. Director John Butt has given listeners an interpretation that will provide a refreshing outlook on this masterpiece and will show the John Passion in a completely new light. The Consort recreate the context of a passion performance during Bach’s time at Leipzig; the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir (directed by James Grossmith) and a congregational choir of amateur singers perform motets and chorales from an original Leipzig hymn book and John Butt takes centre stage to perform organ preludes on the Collins organ at Greyfriar’s Kirk in Edinburgh, where the recording took place. 'No performance could better justify small-scale Bach than this convincing marriage of scholarship and inspiration.’ BBC Music Magazine (on J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor) ‘The playing and the singing is outstanding, undoubtedly enhanced by John Butt's scholarly and revelatory handling of the score.’ The Observer (on J.S. Bach: Matthew Passion) The Dunedin Consort has established a reputation as the finest single-part period performance choir currently performing, under the direction of prize-winning Bach specialist John Butt O.B.E. The multi-award-winning Dunedin Consort has won praise for the natural style of its soloists and renown for the virtuosity of its singers. Since receiving a Gramophone Award in 2007, Dunedin Consort has continued to receive accolades: Esther was voted one of the ‘Top 10 Classical Albums of 2012’ by The Times, 2011 saw them included in Gramophone’s ‘Twenty Greatest Choirs’ list and its recording of Bach’s Matthew Passion was named Building A Library: First Choice by BBC Radio 3 - CD Review. “naturalness and emotional honesty are what emerge from this tight-knit and perfectly paced ensemble Passion, in which Bach's complex succession of recitatives, arias, choruses and chorales has surely seldom sounded so convincingly of a piece...[the singers] come across as a gathering of real people rather than a disembodied chorus. The fact that you can sometimes recognise a soloist's voice within the mix only adds to the impression of reality.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 “The artists themselves bring pleasure, unless you’re allergic to the idiosyncratic, rather peevish tone of the tenor Nicholas Mulroy...Would that there were more chances to hear the soprano Joanne Lunn, clear as a bell, daisy-fresh. Around and about, Matthew Brook’s Jesus, the Dunedin Consort and their director John Butt attack the music with customary verve. Intimacy, too: the Consort choir numbers eight” The Times, 15th March 2013 *** “a dramatic, exactingly nuanced, profoundly considered reading, compelling in its integrity and text-driven immediacy...Mulroy's firmly-contoured Evangelist balances the musical and narrative imperatives of the recitatives with judicious sensitivity...Brooks's Christus stands up to the crowd with a dignified yet firm resolve and hallowed charisma..Butt's contextualising demands to be heard: it's nothing short of a revelation” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 ***** “a really fine, taut, mainly single-voice account of Bach's music – led by Nicholas Mulroy's powerful Evangelist and Matthew Brook's affecting Christ – which somehow acquires new power for emerging from its spartan surroundings. John Butt's research and direction are an object lesson in musical study brought to compelling life.” The Observer, 24th March 2013 “Not only is this an exceptionally fine small-scale performance and recording with scholarly but readable notes, it attempts to bring us closer to the way in which the original listeners experienced the passion on Good Friday” MusicWeb International, March 2013 “The recording is a significant landmark in authentic Bach performance, but at the same time it's refreshingly relaxed around the edges (Butt doesn't pretend to have recreated the exact 1724 service, because there's no way of knowing what that was)” The Herald (Glasgow), March 2013 “the choral singing is wonderfully pure, buoyant and transparent...I found [the add-ons] stimulating and musically all-of-a-piece.” Financial Times, March 2013 “Linn offers a fascinating extra dimension.” Sunday Times, 31st March 2013  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 3
Buxtehude: | Praeludium in D Minor, BuxWV140 Danket dem Herren, (3 var.) BuxWV 181 Canzonetta in G major, BuxWV172 Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BuxWV163 Canzona in E minor BuxWV 169 Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort, BuxWV185 Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, BuxWV212 Praeludium in F Major, BuxWV145 Herr Jesu Christ, ich weiss gar wohl, BuxWV 193 Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BuxWV189 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BuxWV186 Puer natus in Bethlehem, BuxWV217 Praeludium in C major, BuxWV136 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 200 'Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott' Canzona in G major, BuxWV170 Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn, BuxWV 191 Praeambulum in F sharp minor, BuxWv 146 |
The latest volume of Christopher Herrick’s acclaimed series of Buxtehude’s complete organ works comes from Paris and the admired organ of St-Louis-en-l’Île – formally opened in 2005, and based on the work of Zacharias Hildebrant (1688-1757). As with previous discs, it includes a selection of the composer’s praeludia, ostinato works, canzonettas and canzonas, interspersed with chorale preludes, chorale fantasias and variations. Highlights include the magnificent Praeludium in D minor, BuxWV140, which is among the finest and most striking examples of the genre, and a particularly beautiful and contrasting set of chorale preludes. “Always captivating and frequently entertaining as he tosses off ornaments and decorative figures with the panache of a circus act, he communicates an enthusiasm for the music which never stoops to poor taste or anything less than thorough musical integrity. Always an invigorating communicator, he is as compelling in his dazzlingly articulated virtuoso displays as he is in the delicate chorale preludes.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2011 “An extraordinarily diverse tonal palette is explored in the chorale-based works...Within the more substantial works...Herrick makes numerous registration changes. These provide welcome variety and strengthen the rhetorical argument of these works which are often highly sectional in nature...This recording, along with its two predecessors in the series, is a first-rate addition to the catalogue.” International Record Review, April 2011 “Herrick is at his most persuasive in the chorale-embroidering preludes...commanding in the large-scale Magnificat Fantasia, to-the-point in the extended fugue which concludes BuxWV 145, and he discovers his inner Koopman-esque wild man at the start of the F sharp minor Praeludium whose key elicits a blaze of bullish 'attitude' from the organ's not-quite-equal temperament.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2011 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Buxtehude - Organ Works
Buxtehude: | Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C, BuxWV137 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 197 'In dulci jubilo' Prelude and Fugue In D Major, BuxWV139 Ciacona in C minor, BuxWV159 Prelude & Fugue in D minor BuxWV140 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 196 'Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ' Praeambulum in F sharp minor, BuxWv 146 Prelude and Fugue In E Minor, BuxWV142 Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BuxWV 178 Toccata amd Fugue in F Major, BuxWV157 Te Deum Laudamus, BuxWv 218 Prelude and Fugue in F Major, BuxWV145 Mit Fried und Freud, ich fahr dahin, BuxWV 76/1 Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BuxWV155 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 199 'Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott' Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BuxWV143 Toccata and Fugue in F major, BuxWV156 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 200 'Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott' Ciacona in E minor, BuxWV160 Fantasia on 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern', BuxWV223 Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BuxWV153 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 184 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203 Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BuxWV149 Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BuxWV211 Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV161 Prelude & Fugue in G minor BuxWV150 |
“Bach's great predecessor is played with rhythmic buoyancy and bright attack on a clutch of Swiss and Danish organs.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Buxtehude: Organ Works
Buxtehude: | Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV149 Fantasia on 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern', BuxWV223 Praeambulum in F sharp minor, BuxWv 146 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 197 'In dulci jubilo' Praeludium in D major, BuxWV139 Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BuxWV211 Praeludium in C major, BuxWV137 Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt BuxWv 183 Praeludium in D Minor, BuxWV140 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 199 'Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott' Praeludium in E Minor, BuxWV142 Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BuxWV 178 Praeludium in F Major, BuxWV145 Praeludium in A Minor, BuxWV153 Fugue in C major, BuxWV174 Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV161 Ciacona in E minor, BuxWV160 Ciacona in C minor, BuxWV159 Canzonetta in G major, BuxWV171 Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203 Det Tag der ist so freudenreich, BuxWV182 Toccata in D minor, BuxWV155 Te Deum Laudamus, BuxWv 218 Toccata in F major, BuxWV156 Nimm von uns, Herr, Du treuer Gott, BuxWV207 |
“this tightly-packed Buxtehudefest celebrates Alain's magisterial crisply-articulated purposefulness and the peerless Schnitger organ of Gronigen's Martinikerk.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2013 **** |
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| |  | Buxtehude: Complete Organ Works Vol. 4 - 'Sunde und Tod'
Buxtehude: | Praeambulum in F sharp minor, BuxWv 146 Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BuxWV 178 Praeludium in E Minor, BuxWV143 Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt BuxWv 183 Praeludium in A Minor, BuxWV153 Ciacona in C minor, BuxWV159 Ach Gott und Herr BuxWV 177 Prelude in G minor BuxWV150 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 201 'Kommt her zu mir, spricht Gottes Sohn' Praeludium in G Major, BuxWV147 Auf meinen lieben Gott BuxWV 179 Canzonetta in E minor, BuxWV169 Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BuxWV221 Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BuxWV221 Toccata in F major, BuxWV156 Herr Jesu Christ, ich weiss gar wohl, BuxWV 193 Praeludium in F Major, BuxWV144 Cantzon ex Gb, BuxWV173 Canzonetta in C Major, BuxWV 167 Canzonetta in A major, BuxWV 225 Canzonetta in G major, BuxWV172 Praeludium in E Minor, BuxWV142 |
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| |  | Music of the Baroque Avant-GardeBuxtehude: A Tercentenary Tribute
An acknowledged expert in the field of early keyboard instruments and music, Douglas Hollick was the first Organ Scholar at Hull University, studying with Peter Hurford. He subsequently studied in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain, and in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt. He has played widely in the UK and abroad, and teaches in Cambridge and at the Birmingham Conservatoire. With an international reputation, and with many accolades from critics and scholars alike, Douglas Hollick was awarded a year 2000 Churchill Fellowship to visit North Germany and Denmark to research the organs and other keyboard instruments from the period of Buxtehude and the young J S Bach. Endlessly curious about the little known music of the 17th and 18th centuries, he has recorded music of the enigmatic French composer Christophe Moyreau (see Riverrun RVRCD 60), a CD entitled ‘Buxtehude, master and pupil’ (RVRCD 67) which places the great North German master in the context of some of his teachers and pupils, and a programme of music from the period of the French Revolution for harpsichord, square piano and organ (RVRCD 71). Douglas Hollick made harpsichords professionally for some fifteen years up to 1990, and has also had some experience in organ building and early piano restoration. It is a 1986 harpsichord of his, based on Ruckers, which is used on this recording. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Ton Koopman (the Coci/Klapmeyer organ (1498/1728), St. Nicolas’ Church, Altenbruch, Germany) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Buxtehude: | Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV149 Fantasia on 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern', BuxWV223 Vater unser im Himmelreich, BuxWV219 Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, BuxWV212 Ciacona in C minor, BuxWV159 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 197 'In dulci jubilo' Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203 Chorale Prelude BuxWV 196 'Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ' Praeambulum in F sharp minor, BuxWv 146 Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BuxWV 178 Fugue in C major, BuxWV174 Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BuxWV211 Praeludium in C major, BuxWV137 |
“David Hamilton's impeccable performances serve the composer well, and it’s noticeable that allegro passages aren’t played too fast, thus allowing the music to speak clearly and strongly. …he finds some lovely sounds from the 2004 three-manual organ. This outstanding instrument is one of the most important new organs to have appeared in Britain recently...” Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 5
Buxtehude: | Praeludium in D major, BuxWV139 Danket dem Herren, (3 var.) BuxWV 181 Ich dank dir, lieber Herre (F), BuxWV 194 Bel.5 Magnificat noni toni in D minor, BuxWV 205 Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV 203 Praeambulum in F sharp minor, BuxWv 146 Te Deum Laudamus, BuxWv 218 Ach Gott und Herr BuxWV 177 Ich dank dir schon (F), BuxWV 195 Nun lob mein Seel’ den Herren (G), BuxWV 213 Praeludium in D Minor, BuxWV140 |
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