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Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, Laudate Pueri Dominum / Kirkby, Thomas, Fretwork, Purcell Quartet
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Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, Laudate Pueri Dominum / Kirkby, Thomas, Fretwork, Purcell Quartet

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Details

Composer
BUXTEHUDE WECKMANN
Artist
Fretwork, Kirkby, Thomas, Daniels, Harvey, Chance
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Nov 16, 2010
Catalog #
CHAN 0775
UPC
095115077528

About

This new release from Chandos' early music label, Chaconne, focuses on Buxtehude's seven cantatas, collectively known as Membra Jesu nostri. These are among Buxtehude's best-known works, and perfectly exemplify the seventeenth-century preference for musical structures that are broadly symmetrical, but subtly varied in detail. Each of the seven cantatas has roughly the same shape: Biblical passages are set for the whole ensemble and enclose stanzas from the mediaeval poem Rhythmica oratio, which are set as arias for reduced vocal forces and interspersed with instrumental ritornelli.

Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri takes the form of a sequence of seven meditations on the crucified body of Jesus, beginning with the feet ('Ad pedes'), followed by the knees ('Ad genua'), the hands ('Ad manus'), the side ('Ad latus'), the breast ('Ad pectus'), the heart ('Ad cor'), and the face ('Ad faciem'). As such, the work is written from the perspective of a penitent kneeling at the foot of the cross and gradually extending his gaze upwards, meditating on each part of the body in turn. The keys chosen for the cantatas seem to have added symbolic meaning. As the gaze rises, they move from flats to sharps, from C minor to E minor, before finally returning to the opening key to produce a beautifully unified cycle. On this release the cantata cycle is complemented by Matthias Weckmann's Kommet her zu mir alle, a setting of the words from St Matthew's Gospel (11: 28 - 30), in which the composer gives the words of Jesus to a virtuoso bass singer with an impressive range of nearly two octaves, a part here performed by Peter Harvey, and provides him with an accompaniment of two violins, three bass viols, and continuo.

The works on this disc are performed by an excellent ensemble of early music specialists. As exclusive artists, The Purcell Quartet is today popularizing the cantatas of Buxtehude in concerts and recordings involving a fabulous quartet of soloists - Emma Kirkby,Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, and Peter Harvey - to which, for the occasion, the group is joined by the soprano Elin Monahan Thomas. The Quartet has also recorded a huge range of music exclusively for Chandos, including works by Purcell, Corelli, Lawes, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Weckmann, Buxtehude, Leclair, Schütz, Couperin, and Biber, to outstanding critical and public acclaim. The early music specialists Fretwork, the viol ensemble, also performs on this recording.

Tracklist 31 tracks

  1. 1 I. Ad pedes: Sonata 00:45
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Ad pedes: Sonata
    Duration
    00:45
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  2. 2 I. Ad pedes: Ecce super montes pedes 01:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Ad pedes: Ecce super montes pedes
    Duration
    01:14
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  3. 3 I. Ad pedes: Salve mundi salutare 04:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Ad pedes: Salve mundi salutare
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Elin Manahan Thomas, Emma Kirkby, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Fretwork, Purcell Quartet
  4. 4 I. Ad pedes: Ecce super montes pedes 01:16
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Ad pedes: Ecce super montes pedes
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  5. 5 I. Ad pedes: Salve mundi salutare 00:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Ad pedes: Salve mundi salutare
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  6. 6 II. Ad genua: Sonata in tremulo 01:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Ad genua: Sonata in tremulo
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  7. 7 II. Ad genua: Ad ubera portabimini 01:34
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Ad genua: Ad ubera portabimini
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  8. 8 II. Ad genua: Salve Jesu, rex sanctorum 03:44
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Ad genua: Salve Jesu, rex sanctorum
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Michael Chance, Emma Kirkby, Charles Daniels, Elin Manahan Thomas, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Fretwork, Purcell Quartet
  9. 9 II. Ad genua: Ad ubera portabimini 01:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Ad genua: Ad ubera portabimini
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  10. 10 III. Ad manus: Sonata 00:56
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Ad manus: Sonata
    Duration
    00:56
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  11. 11 III. Ad manus: Quid sunt plagae 01:58
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Ad manus: Quid sunt plagae
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  12. 12 III. Ad manus: Salve Jesu, pastor bone 05:07
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Ad manus: Salve Jesu, pastor bone
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Elin Manahan Thomas, Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Peter Harvey, Charles Daniels
    Ensemble
    Fretwork, Purcell Quartet
  13. 13 III. Ad manus: Quid sunt plagae 02:15
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Ad manus: Quid sunt plagae
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  14. 14 IV. Ad latus: Sonata 00:26
    Track
    14
    Title
    IV. Ad latus: Sonata
    Duration
    00:26
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  15. 15 IV. Ad latus: Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea 01:44
    Track
    15
    Title
    IV. Ad latus: Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  16. 16 IV. Ad latus: Salve latus salvatoris 04:40
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Ad latus: Salve latus salvatoris
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  17. 17 IV. Ad latus: Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea 01:58
    Track
    17
    Title
    IV. Ad latus: Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea
    Duration
    01:58
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  18. 18 V. Ad pectus: Sonata 00:40
    Track
    18
    Title
    V. Ad pectus: Sonata
    Duration
    00:40
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  19. 19 V. Ad pectus: Sicut modo geniti infantes rationabiles 02:20
    Track
    19
    Title
    V. Ad pectus: Sicut modo geniti infantes rationabiles
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  20. 20 V. Ad pectus: Salve, salus mea, Deus 05:21
    Track
    20
    Title
    V. Ad pectus: Salve, salus mea, Deus
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Michael Chance, Elin Manahan Thomas, Emma Kirkby
    Ensemble
    Fretwork, Purcell Quartet
  21. 21 V. Ad pectus: Sicut modo geniti infantes rationabiles 02:40
    Track
    21
    Title
    V. Ad pectus: Sicut modo geniti infantes rationabiles
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Fretwork, Purcell Quartet
  22. 22 VI. Ad cor: Sonata 01:48
    Track
    22
    Title
    VI. Ad cor: Sonata
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  23. 23 VI. Ad cor: Vulnerasti cor meum 02:21
    Track
    23
    Title
    VI. Ad cor: Vulnerasti cor meum
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  24. 24 VI. Ad cor: Summi regis cor, aveto 03:04
    Track
    24
    Title
    VI. Ad cor: Summi regis cor, aveto
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  25. 25 VI. Ad cor: Vulnerasti cor meum 02:28
    Track
    25
    Title
    VI. Ad cor: Vulnerasti cor meum
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  26. 26 VII. Ad faciem: Sonata 00:51
    Track
    26
    Title
    VII. Ad faciem: Sonata
    Duration
    00:51
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  27. 27 VII. Ad faciem: Illustra faciem tuam 01:47
    Track
    27
    Title
    VII. Ad faciem: Illustra faciem tuam
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  28. 28 VII. Ad faciem: Salve, caput cruentatum 03:51
    Track
    28
    Title
    VII. Ad faciem: Salve, caput cruentatum
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  29. 29 VII. Ad faciem: Amen 01:26
    Track
    29
    Title
    VII. Ad faciem: Amen
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  30. 30 Laudate pueri Dominum, BuxWV 69 04:56
    Track
    30
    Title
    Laudate pueri Dominum, BuxWV 69
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Emma Kirkby, Elin Manahan Thomas
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet, Fretwork
  31. 31 Kommet her zu mir alle 08:42
    Track
    31
    Title
    Kommet her zu mir alle
    Duration
    08:42
    Composer
    Matthias Weckmann
    Performer
    Peter Harvey
    Ensemble
    Purcell Quartet