Buxtehude - Opera Omnia XII: Chamber Music Vol.1 | Challenge Classics CC72251

Buxtehude - Opera Omnia XII: Chamber Music Vol.1

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72251

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 4th October 2010

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Opera Omnia Xll is the latest release in the acclaimed cycle of the complete works of Dietrich Buxtehude featuring the award winning combination of renowned early music specialist Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. It is the first volume to be devoted to the composer’s lesser-known but highly-rewarding chamber music, and concentrates on sonatas from manuscript sources.

Ton Koopman is one of the world’s foremost early music specialists and directors, and his recording of the complete Bach Cantatas on Challenge Classics received worldwide acclaim. In recent years he has undertaken the daunting task of recording all of the music of his compatriot, the early baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude. As president of the International Dietrich Buxtehude Society, Ton Koopman is considered to be one of the world’s leading authorities on his music. Amongst a string of accolades for previous recordings in the series, Opera Omnia X (CC72249), was a Gramophone “Editor’s Choice”.

Dietrich Buxtehude’s chamber works today count among the least known of his compositions. They were already forgotten soon after 1700, despite the fact that two thirds of Buxtehude’s chamber sonatas, unlike any other category in the composer’s creative output, were published during his lifetime.

The publication of sonatas indicates that there was a market for this repertoire in the later 17th century. Moreover, the publication of two sets of such works suggests that the fame of the Lübeck master and the success of the first set must have created the demand for a second. However, the primary reason for these works getting out of fashion by the time of Buxtehude’s death was their unconventional instrumental scoring and, more importantly, the triumphant rise of the modern Italian trio sonata by Corelli, Albinoni and others in the early 18th century.

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