SKU: BR.EB-9304

ISBN 9790004187685. 12 x 9 inches.

This edition is the result of Harald Vogel's many years of practice as an organist and musicologist. The music text is based on a reevaluation of 17th- and 18th-century manuscripts containing the free organ and keyboard works by Buxtehude. They originated during a transitional phase between the traditional letter tablature and the staff notation still in use today. Since many works have survived only in transcriptions for staff notation, the editor was confronted with a high error rate, which he carefully analyzes in the Einzelanmerkungen. During the preparation of the edition, the editor always kept sight of the performance practice, but still, the image of the sources is never distorted (e. g. by superfluous rests, beaming not conforming to the sources and the unhistorical adjustment of time signatures) and stays very close to the compositional notation, the letter tablature. The flexible use of three staves and the differentiated distribution of the voices on the staves allow for an approximation in reading conventions of historical notation with its resulting information about hand division. Grouping the free organ repertoire into works with obbligato pedal and works for manuals, this edition is organized in two volumes. The first subvolume (I/1, EB 9304) contains the Preface and the Preludes, whereas the second subvolume (I/2, EB 9305) contains Toccatas, Ostinato works, alternative versions and a comprehensive Critical Commentary (in German only). Volume II (EB 9306) contains Buxtehude's free organ and keyboard works (manualiter) with the corresponding texts (Preface and Critical Commentary).Until 1971, Harald Vogel worked on a dissertation (with Georg von Dadelsen, Hamburg) on Die Fuge um Bach. Besides the description of the inclusion of triple measures into the C notation and the irregularities of the voice mutation in the polyphonic structures, this also included a discussion about the justification of the inner textual criticism. With the inner textual criticism, deviations in parallel passages are unified. The North German fugue style, reaching a peak in Buxtehude's work, is characterized by a constant diversity of details in subject and polyphonic progressions. One of the indicators of the fantastic style is the dissolution of the polyphonic structures at the ends of the fugues, evident in Buxtehude's work.In this edition, a musical text is presented that avoids the uniformity of detail not conforming to the sources. However, there are many examples of transcription and cursory errors, which are analyzed in a methodical systematic manner. About the editor: As an organist, professor, organ expert, and scholar, Harald Vogel has rendered outstanding services to the interpretation of early music and especially to historical performance practice concerning the organ for decades. He has received numerous awards, including an ECHO Klassik as Instrumentalist of the Year (2012), honorary doctorates from Lulea University of Technology (Sweden, 2008) and Oberlin College (USA, 2014), as well as the Buxtehude Prize of the City of Lubeck (2018). Harald Vogel is the author and editor of numerous scholarly publications and editions. Through his lifelong performance practice, he can look back on an extensive discography, including the complete recording of Buxtehude's organ works, which he recorded in various locations with historical organ instruments of the North German organ building tradition in Scandinavia, North Germany and the Netherlands.

pure source edition (no mixture of different transmissions); comprehensive commentary (Vol. I/2 & II) (with texts about the sources, chronology, use of keys, liturgic placement as well as detailed critical remarks, incl. music examples (in German only)); good page turnsflexible division of voices (on 2 or 3 systems, good legibility); contains facsimiles. The corresponding Critical Commentary is contained in Volume I/2 (EB 9305).

SKU: CA.3622211

ISBN 9790007214159. Language: German.

The Ascension Cantata Du Lebensfurst, Herr Jesu Christ BuxWV 22 by Dieterich Buxtehude is based on five verses of the hymn of thanksgiving of the same name by Johann Rist (1641), and in formal terms, is in the genre of a Concerto cum aria. An introductory sonata is followed by verse and ritornello in alternation. A special feature of the scoring is the use of the violetta as a string instrument in the middle of the five-part string texture. This can be played by a modern viola. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3622200.

SKU: CA.3603414

ISBN 9790007214005. Language: German. Text: Ebert, Jakob. Text: Jakob Ebert.

The present cantata is a setting of the first three verses of the hymn Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ, with a text by Jakob Ebert (1549-1614). In the variety of ways for deploying the instruments in concert and the alternation between the instrumental and vocal parts, it goes beyond the comparatively simple model found in other cantatas of Buxtehude. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3603400.

SKU: CA.3620015

ISBN 9790007214128. Language: German. Text: Eber, Paul. Text: Paul Eber.

Liturgically, the present cantata is meant to be performed at the turn of the year. For his setting of the text Buxtehude chose a two-part form with a concluding Amen. This plea for a propitious new year is given a special musical interpretation. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3620000.

SKU: CA.3620012

ISBN 9790007214098. Language: German. Text: Eber, Paul. Text: Paul Eber.

Liturgically, the present cantata is meant to be performed at the turn of the year. For his setting of the text Buxtehude chose a two-part form with a concluding Amen. This plea for a propitious new year is given a special musical interpretation. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3620000.

SKU: CA.3622216

ISBN 9790007214203. Language: German.

The Ascension Cantata Du Lebensfurst, Herr Jesu Christ BuxWV 22 by Dieterich Buxtehude is based on five verses of the hymn of thanksgiving of the same name by Johann Rist (1641), and in formal terms, is in the genre of a Concerto cum aria. An introductory sonata is followed by verse and ritornello in alternation. A special feature of the scoring is the use of the violetta as a string instrument in the middle of the five-part string texture. This can be played by a modern viola. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3622200.