{"product_id":"buxtehude-opera-omnia-vol-17-vocal-works-vol-7","title":"Buxtehude: Opera Omnia, Vol. 17 - Vocal Works, Vol. 7","description":"\u003cspan class=\"COMPOSER12\"\u003eBUXTEHUDE \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eAn filius non est Dei,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 6. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eAll solch,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 3. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eSchwinget euch,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 96. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eLaudate, pueri,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 69. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eMit Fried und Freud,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 76. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eO wie selig,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 90. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eDu Frieden-Fürst,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 21. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eFürwahr, er trug,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 31. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eHerzlich tut mich,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 42. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eNimm von uns,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 78. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eQuemadmodum desiderat,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 92. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eIch halte,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 48. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eIch sprache,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 49. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eJesu, meiner Freuden Meister,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 61. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eWär Gott,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 102. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eDein edles Herz,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 14. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eWenn ich,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 107. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eDomine salvum fac,\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e BuxWV 18 \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Ton Koopman,cond; Amaryllis Dieltiens, Gerlinde Sämann, Dorothee Wohlgemuth (sop); Maarten Engeltjes (alt); Tilman Lichdi (ten); Klaus Mertens (bs); Amsterdam Baroque O \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e CHALLENGE 72256 (2 CDs: 146:44 \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eText and Translation) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan class=\"COMPOSER12\"\u003eBUXTEHUDE \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eWachet auf, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 101. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eO clemens, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 82. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eGen Himmel, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 32. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eSurrexit Christus, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 99. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eMein Herz, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 73. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eSinget dem Herrn, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 98. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003eCanon, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 121. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12b\"\u003eGigue, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 121. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eMeine Seele, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 74. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eHerr, ich lasse, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 36. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eWachet auf, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 100. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eO Gottes Stadt, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 87. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eWie soll ich dich, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 109. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eSicut Moses, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 97. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eSalve desiderium, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 93. \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eGott, hilf mir, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eBuxWV 34 \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eTon Koopman, cond; Miriam Feuersinger, Bettina Pahn, Dorothee Wohlgemuth (sop); Maarten Engeltjes (alt); Tilman Lichdi (ten); Klaus Mertens (bs); Amsterdam Baroque O \u0026amp; Ch \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e \u003ca class=\"links\" href=\"album.jsp?album_id=1085030\"\u003eCHALLENGE 72257\u003c\/a\u003e (2 CDs: 135:01 \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003eText and Translation) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan\u003eThese four discs are the last in Ton Koopman’s complete set of Dieterich Buxtehude’s vocal works. (He has also finished recording the keyboard and chamber works.) The first two issues consisted of two CDs devoted to \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eDas jüngste Gericht\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e, BuxWV Anh. 3 (\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFanfare\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e 30:6) and two CDs of some of the vocal works that Georg Karstädt numbered BuxWV 1 to 120 (31:5) in 1974. These works comprise a variety of forms; Karstädt called the first 112 works “cantatas,” a term the composer did not use. I tried to sort this out as thoroughly as possible in my review in 31:5, but unfortunately the next three issues (volumes 3 to 5, a total of five CDs) did not come my way. But then came \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eMembra Jesu Nostri\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e (36:3), and now, at last, we can hear volumes 7 and 8, a total of four more CDs, two in each issue. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan\u003eIncluded are 10 first recordings, along with one work recorded only on shellac by Mogens Wöldike, three more recorded only once each on LP, and one recorded only once on CD. These rarities are mingled with 28 more familiar works. We should single out the canon and gigue that bears the number 121. These fragments of a cantata were only recently discovered, but Karstädt included them under this number (he also has number 122 that was previously recorded by both Koopman and by Magnus Kjellson on Intim). Another interesting recorded premiere is \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eWachet auf\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e, BuxWV 100, a setting that uses the melody and all three verses of Philipp Nicolai’s hymn. It is in volume 8, as well as a modern strophic aria setting of the same text, BuxWV 101, already recorded three times even though doubt has been cast on its authenticity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan\u003eA more familiar work is \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eMit Fried und Freud\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e, a contrapuntal setting of Luther’s hymn in four verses, followed by Buxtehude’s own lament for his father in seven verses. Early recordings offered only one part or the other; more recently the two sections have been recorded together, but the lament has never been sung complete, at most four verses (here only verses 1, 3, and 7); I can find the other four verses only by picking out three different discs. As recorded here in the original high pitch (exactly half a tone higher than Emma Kirkby), Koopman asks rhetorically, “Could there be anything more beautiful?” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan\u003eOne of the favorite solo cantatas, and one of the first two Buxtehude cantatas ever recorded, is \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eSinget dem Herrn ein neues Lied\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e, sung by soprano Bettina Pahn. Her competition is formidable, including Helen Boatwright, Honor Sheppard, and Emma Kirkby, but this is suitably stylish with vocal flourishes and a strong voice. The most recent version, exceptionally, came from a tenor, Hans Jörg Mammel (35:1). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan\u003eOne of the larger works is \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eFürwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e for five soloists, a sacred concerto based on Passion prophecies of Isaiah. The text is only eight lines long, but it is treated expansively. The setting is especially grateful for the singers, who are supported by strings in five parts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan\u003eThe concluding work of the whole series is the longest one on these four discs, \u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eGott, hilf mir\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cspan\u003e, recorded only a few times, most recently by Konrad Junghänel (21:3) and Roland Wilson (31:3). The text is compiled from Isaiah, two psalms, and other sources, preceded by a long instrumental sinfonia. The setting calls for three soloists, and Koopman uses a chorus for the chorale sections, as Wilson also does. Comparisons with competing versions would be instructive, but the comprehensive survey of the entire series of vocal works on 14 discs has a unique validity. Not only do they form a compact collection, but they provide numerous recording premieres. Lacking sufficient reference sources, I cannot account for any recordings of over a dozen titles, but that will require further study. It is hard to imagine a competing set of this magnitude coming along very soon (a remark that has proved rash in other repertoire, to be sure), so accept this as a signal accomplishment, even if you want to use some other versions for comparison. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cspan style=\"font-weight:bold\"\u003eFANFARE: J. F. 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