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Buxtehude: Scandinavian Cantatas / Hillier, Theatre Of Voices
Dacapo Classical

Buxtehude: Scandinavian Cantatas / Hillier, Theatre Of Voices

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Composer
BUXTEHUDE, DIETRICH
Artist
Hillier
Format
SACD
Label
Dacapo Classical
Released
Nov 16, 2010
Catalog #
6220534
UPC
747313153466

About


As the notes point out, Buxtehude "never held a position that required him to compose vocal music," but as these works show, he was no stranger to the practice, writing for the voice with adept concision that shows a remarkably wide expressive range and engaging tunefulness. The works are not complex by any means, and employ a minimal contingent of strings and/or organ just sufficient to support and add color to the vocal parts, and to supply textural and occasional imitative or contrasting thematic interest.

These little cantatas--each lasting between five and eight minutes--feature four or five voices (in one case, only a solo singer), with texts in Latin or (in two instances) Swedish, drawn from the Psalms or religious poetry. In addition to the cantatas--and a welcome organ Praeludium and Passacaglia--we hear the Kyrie and Gloria of a Missa alla brevis, Buxtehude's "only strictly liturgical work"; the extraordinary and delightfully surprising chromatic passages in the final few pages of the Gloria make this one of the program's more memorable--and immediately repeatable--moments.

Paul Hillier's one-voice-to-a-part configuration works very well for these pieces whose style often seems closer to the earlier 17th-century Italian madrigal than to northern European church music of the late 1600s (the opening vocal flourishes and overall expressive character of "Ecce nunc benedicite Domino", for instance). All of these singers are excellent, but among them Else Torp is particularly fine in her solo-cantata "Att du Jesu vill mig höra" (That you will hear me, Jesus). The instrumental ensemble and continuo playing, as well as the solo-organ renditions by Buxtehude expert Bine Bryndorf, are equally stylish and assured--and everything is recorded in state-of-the-art sound, from the church of St. Mary's, Elsinore (Helsingør), where Buxtehude once served as organist, and who played the (now restored) instrument heard here.

--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 142 08:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 142
    Duration
    08:10
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Bine Katrine Bryndorf
  2. 2 Pange lingua gloriosi, BuxWV 91 07:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    Pange lingua gloriosi, BuxWV 91
    Duration
    07:23
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices, Theatre of Voices Band
    Conductor
    Paul Hillier
  3. 3 Herren var Gud, BuxWV 40 05:39
    Track
    3
    Title
    Herren var Gud, BuxWV 40
    Duration
    05:39
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices, Theatre of Voices Band
    Conductor
    Paul Hillier
  4. 4 Ecce nunc benedicite Domino, BuxWV 23 06:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    Ecce nunc benedicite Domino, BuxWV 23
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices, Theatre of Voices Band
    Conductor
    Paul Hillier
  5. 5 Att du, Jesu, will mig hora, BuxWV 8 05:05
    Track
    5
    Title
    Att du, Jesu, will mig hora, BuxWV 8
    Duration
    05:05
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Else Torp
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices Band
  6. 6 Accedite gentes, accurite populi, BuxWV 1 06:07
    Track
    6
    Title
    Accedite gentes, accurite populi, BuxWV 1
    Duration
    06:07
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices, Theatre of Voices Band
    Conductor
    Paul Hillier
  7. 7 Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161 05:57
    Track
    7
    Title
    Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Bine Katrine Bryndorf
  8. 8 Kyrie 03:16
    Track
    8
    Title
    Kyrie
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices, Theatre of Voices Band
    Conductor
    Paul Hillier
  9. 9 Gloria 05:29
    Track
    9
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices, Theatre of Voices Band
    Conductor
    Paul Hillier
  10. 10 Domine, salvum fac regem, BuxWV 18 05:18
    Track
    10
    Title
    Domine, salvum fac regem, BuxWV 18
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Ensemble
    Theatre of Voices, Theatre of Voices Band
    Conductor
    Paul Hillier