Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia
Dieterich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia is a project to record the complete works (in Latin: opera omnia) of the German Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude.[1]
History
After Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir had finished a recording of the complete cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach they began in 2005 the project "Dieterich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia" to record the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude.[2] Koopman is the president of the "International Dieterich Buxtehude Society" since 2004.[3] As of March 2010, eleven volumes have been released. A review of Vol. 11 states: "Yet here we are at the eleventh volume of his complete works conceived and executed by one of the most accomplished and respected directors of the 'early' music movement, Ton Koopman, and next to no attention is being paid to the enterprise, presumably at about its half way point."[1]
Singers
Soloists for the Buxtehude project who performed also in the Bach cantata project before have included sopranos Caroline Stam and Johannette Zomer, alto Bogna Bartosz, tenor Jörg Dürmüller, and bass Klaus Mertens. Singers new for the Buxtehude have included sopranos Bettina Pahn, Miriam Meyer, Siri Thornhill, Orlanda Velez Isidro, altos Robin Blaze, Patrick Van Goethem, Hugo Naessens, Daniel Taylor, tenor Andreas Karasiak and bass Donald Bentvelsen.[4]
Volumes
The works are grouped according to their scoring in harpsichord works, organ works, and vocal works.[5] Koopman himself plays the harpsichord and the organ. The organ works were recorded in different German churches on Baroque organs with different characteristics from a small village organ to one of the major organs of Hamburg. Organ Works 1 was recorded on the Coci/Klapmeyer organ at the St. Nicolai Kirche (pictured) in Altenbruch, restored by Jürgen Ahrend (pictured, 2003/04). Organ Works 2 was recorded on the Wilde/Schnitger organ at the St. Jacobi Kirche (pictured) in Lüdingworth, restored by Jürgen Ahrend (pictured, #107). Organ Works 3 was recorded on the Schnitger organ 1693 in St. Jacobi, Hamburg. Organ Works 4 was recorded on the Gercke/Herbst organ in the Dorfkirche Basedow (pictured) in Basedow. Organ Works 5 was recorded on the Bielfeldt organ (1736) in the St. Wilhadi Kirche in Stade.
In an overview the works are given by their number in the BuxWV, the catalogue of the composer's works.
- Opera Omnia - Volume I - Harpsichord Works 1
- BuxWV 250, 230, 238, 233, 245, 235, 247, 228, 242, 226, 243, 234, 232
- Opera Omnia - Volume II - Vocal Works 1[6]
- Wacht! Euch zum Streit gefasset macht (Das jüngste Gericht), BuxWV Anh. 3
- Caroline Stam, Orlanda Velez Isidro, Robin Blaze, Andreas Karasiak, Klaus Mertens
- Opera Omnia - Volume III - Organ Works 1[7]
- BuxWV 139, 141, 146, 156, 160, 162, 169, 178, 197, 210, 213, 220
- Coci/Klapmeyer organ, Altenbruch
- Opera Omnia - Volume IV - Organ Works 2
- BuxWV 157, 161, 163, 164, 170, 173-175, 177, 180-182, 184, 188, 211, 217, 223
- Wilde/Schnitger organ, Lüdingworth
- Opera Omnia - Volume V - Vocal Works 2
- BuxWV 2, 10, 12, 19, 20, 40, 43, 50-52, 64, 70, 81, 110, 113, 114, 120, 123, 124, Anh. 1
- Bettina Pahn, Johannette Zomer, Bogna Bartosz, Patrick van Goethem, Daniel Taylor, Jörg Dürmüller, Andreas Karasiak, Donald Bentvelsen, Klaus Mertens
- Opera Omnia - Volume VI - Harpsichord Works 2[8][9]
- BuxWV 246, 236, 249, 239, Suite in a (deest), 168, 244, 227, 165, 248, 240, 237, 166, Anh. 6, 241, 229
- Opera Omnia - Volume VII - Vocal Works 3[10]
- BuxWV Anh. 4, 7, 24, 25, 41, 47, 62, 63, 68, 72, 77, 79, 116, 119 A, 119 B, 122
- Miriam Meyer, Bettina Pahn, Johannette Zomer, Bogna Bartosz, Patrick van Goethem, Hugo Naessens, Jörg Dürmüller, Andreas Karasiak, Donald Bentvelsen, Klaus Mertens
- Opera Omnia - Volume VIII - Organ Works 3
- BuxWV 149, 179, 225, 140, 185, 159, 148, 187, 176, 145, 183, 213-5, 137, 193, 200
- Schnitger organ, Hamburg
- Opera Omnia - Volume IX - Organ Works 4
- BuxWV 138, 199, 172, 202, 224, 147, 196, 171, 219, 203, 144, 212, 201, 167, 186, 198, 190, 207, 189)
- Gercke/Herbst organ, Basedow
- Opera Omnia - Volume X - Organ Works 5
- BuxWV 142, 209, 218, 136, 222, 155, 221, 151, 152, 191, 158, 204, 205, 150, 153, 194, 192, 143, 206, 208 and preludes in e (2) and G and a chorale prelude on "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" by Nicolaus Bruhns
- Bielfeldt organ, Stade
- Opera Omnia - Volume XI - Vocal Works 4
- BuxWV 33, 56, 26, 71, 86, 11, 27, 8, Anh. 2, 29, 112, 54, 5, 53, 37, 59, 13
- Bettina Pahn, Miriam Meyer, Siri Thornhill, Johannette Zomer, Patrick van Goethem, Bogna Bartosz, Jörg Dürmüller, Andreas Karasiak, Klaus Mertens
- Opera Omnia - Volume XII - Chamber Music 1[11]
- BuxWV 266, 272, 267, 273, Anh. 5, 271, 268, 269
- Opera Omnia - Volume XIII - Chamber Music 2[12]
- BuxWV 252 253 254 255 256 257 258
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