classical music: dieterich

classical music: dieterich

classical music:

Dieterich

Dieterich Buxethude: Organ Works, Vol. 2
Dietrich Buxtehude, Ton Koopman

Challenge, 2007

The fourth part of the complete works of Buxtehude, and the second part of the organ works, contains the composer's earlier works from before 1683. Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a Danish-born organist and composer of the German Baroque; he was organist at St. Mary's Church in Lubeck most of his life. Regarded at one time as mostly an ...

Dieterich Buxtehude and the Mean-Tone Organ, Volume 1

Dietrich Buxtehude, Hans Davidsson

Loft Recordings, 2007

A Revelation!
One of my beloved uncles is a Lutheran church organist in Minnesota. He and I have had numerous battles over the question of whether mammoth organs, the kind with four manuals and 50+ stops, should be considered musical instruments or WDMs of holy war. The problem for ...

Ton Koopman Dieterich Buxtehude (Opera Omnia 2) (2cd- set)

Donald Bentvelsen, Klaus Mertens, ...

Challenge Classics, 2007

Buxtehude's Complete Vocal Works--A Superb Start
Ton Koopman, the Dutch early music specialist, has previously recorded several excellent discs of Buxtehude's cantatas on Erato/Warner. Now he is embarking on the first-ever set of all of Buxtehude's works ("Opera Omnia" in Latin) on the Challenge label. This ...

Mozart - Die Zauberflöte / Oelze, Schade, Sieden, Finley, Peeters, English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Eliot Gardiner, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

A great argument for historically iinformed performance styles
In this 1995 recording Gardiner's conducting is brisk, his orchestral sound is light and bright, and his singers sound young and fresh. Compared with the Klemperer and Boehm recordings, it is rather like an old Italian master painting after the layers of old varnish ...