Music of spiritual edification, music of mystical inspiration - almost an exercise in contemplation or adoration - that, following the words that the composer himself writes on the cover of the manuscript of the score, must be sung with the humblest devotion, wholeheartedly (“humble Totius Cordis Devotione decantata”). In 1680 Buxtehude composes the cycle entitled Membra Jesu nostri, when Bach was not yet born. It was still almost 45 years before he wrote the first of two of his known passions, the St John Passion. But with the composition of that music sheet, Buxtehude marks a before and after in the repertoire of music related to the Passion of Christ.

Throughout these 20 years of existence, it has been their music that has starred in most of the programmes that the Conductus Ensemble has offered. Among them are a large number of his sacred cantatas and practically all of his great choral works: Mass in B minor, Missas Brevis, Passions, Magnificat or the complete motets. In addition to Bach’s music, the work that the group has developed in the world of German baroque includes the study and interpretation of works by less wellknown and programmed authors than Bach but who shared the musical environment that he lived in. This is how we have worked with music by authors usually reserved for specialized audiences such as Reinhard Keiser, Carl Heinrich Graun or Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, or some other better-known such as Johann Pachelbel or Dieterich Buxtehude. The latter, the most important musician among all of them and the one who had the most influence on Bach’s work.