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The music-making is infectiously unbuttoned and urbane, shot through with flamboyance, tenderness and wit. Koopman also encourages an airy, effortless spaciousness, while relishing the Trio Sonatas'... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Apr 2012
Catalogue No: CC72254
Label: Challenge Classics
Series: Buxtehude Opera Omnia
Length: 73 minutes

Buxtehude: Trio sonatas opus 2

Work length1:13:22

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Catherine Manson, Paolo Pandolfo, Mike Fentross, Ton Koopman

Sonata in B flat op.2 nr.1 BuxWV 259

Track length8:27

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Sonata in D op.2 nr.2 BuxWV 260

Track length14:16

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Sonata in g op.2 nr. 3 BuxWV 261

Track length13:18

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Sonata in c op.2 nr. 4 BuxWV 262

Track length8:19

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Sonata in A op.2 nr. 5 BuxWV 263

Track length10:41

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Sonata in E op.2 nr. 6 BuxWV 264

Track length9:30

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Sonata in F op.2 nr. 7 BuxWV 265

Track length8:51

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Opera Omnia XV is the latest release in the acclaimed cycle of the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude from the award winning combination of renowned early music specialist Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque. It is the third and final volume to be devoted to the composer’s lesser known but highly rewarding chamber music and includes his opus 2 Trio Sonatas.

Ton Koopman is one of the world’s foremost early music specialists and directors. His recordings of the complete Bach Cantatas on Challenge Classics received worldwide acclaim. In recent years he has undertaken the daunting task of recording all of the music of his compatriot, the early baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude. As president of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Society, Ton Koopman is considered to be one of the world’s leading authorities on his music, and amongst a string of accolades for previous recordings in the series Opera Omnia X (CC72249) was a Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’.

Within a period of two years during the last decade of the 17th century the Dutch composer Dieterich Buxtehude published a group of fourteen instrumental chamber sonatas in two sets of seven. The trio sonata had originated in Italy after the middle of the century, but the compositional ideas pursued by Buxtehude are based on the concept of the so-called “stylus fantasticus” which was favoured in keyboard and instrumental ensemble music in North Germany at that time.

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August 2012

The music-making is infectiously unbuttoned and urbane, shot through with flamboyance, tenderness and wit. Koopman also encourages an airy, effortless spaciousness, while relishing the Trio Sonatas' arrestingly quirky phantasticus elements. And the recording is close enough to capture immediacy and vitality.

August 2012

A number of excellent groups have previously recorded them but none with the authority and wide experience that Koopman can claim. His colleagues in these performances themselves bring exceptional qualities to the music...Wonderfully warm, eventful and ultimately deeply satisfying performances.

July 2012

They clearly love the music. They have the will, technique, interpretative impetus and precision to offer an analogous response to the listener...It’s all done without fuss or undue emphasis on - a still much needed - advocacy for an overlooked genius. Do not miss this issue.

Buxtehude - Chamber Music 3

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