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Hillier, Theatre Of Voices - Buxtehude: Scandinavian Cantatas (2010)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: 1 Sep 2015 09:02:02

This recording offers an unusual selection of Dietrich Buxtehude’s vocal music performed by 2010 Grammy® Award winning ensemble Theatre of Voices conducted by Paul Hillier. Among these rarely heard works with texts in Swedish and Latin, we find cantatas in the form of virtuoso concertos, as well as arias and chorale settings and Buxtehude’s only work in the stile antico, the Missa alla brevis.

A natural choice of recording venue for Hillier and his team was St. Mary’s Church in Elsinore where Buxtehude was employed as an organist in 1660-68. Bine Bryndorf is the guest organist and plays the authentic (restored) ‘Buxtehude organ’.

Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude
Performer: Bine Bryndorf
Conductor: Paul Hillier
Orchestra/Ensemble: Theatre of Voices

Reviews: 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.

Tracklisting:

Buxtehude, Dieterich
Show Details Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 142
1. Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 142 00:08:10
Buxtehude, Dieterich
St. Thomas Aquinas, lyricist(s)
Show Details Pange lingua gloriosi, BuxWV 91
2. Pange lingua gloriosi, BuxWV 91 00:07:23
Buxtehude, Dieterich
Show Details Herren var Gud, BuxWV 40
3. Herren var Gud, BuxWV 40 00:05:39
Buxtehude, Dieterich
Bible - Old Testament, lyricist(s)
Show Details Ecce nunc benedicite Domino, BuxWV 23
4. Ecce nunc benedicite Domino, BuxWV 23 00:06:40
Buxtehude, Dieterich
Show Details Att du, Jesu, will mig hora, BuxWV 8
5. Att du, Jesu, will mig hora, BuxWV 8 00:05:05
Buxtehude, Dieterich
Bible - Old Testament, lyricist(s)
Show Details Accedite gentes, accurite populi, BuxWV 1
6. Accedite gentes, accurite populi, BuxWV 1 00:06:07
Buxtehude, Dieterich
Show Details Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161
7. Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161 00:05:57
Buxtehude, Dieterich
Mass Text, lyricist(s)
Show Details Missa alla brevis, BuxWV 114 (excerpts)
8. Kyrie 00:03:16
9. Gloria 00:05:29
Buxtehude, Dieterich
Bible - Old Testament, lyricist(s)
Show Details Domine, salvum fac regem, BuxWV 18
10. Domine, salvum fac regem, BuxWV 18 00:05:18

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