BUXTEHUDE Organ Works

Recreating the brilliant, powerful sonorities forged by the stars of the North German organ school on two legendary instruments by Arp Schnitger.

Japan’s leading organist, Yuichiro Shiina, records twenty-two organ works by the great master of the North German organ school, Dieterich Buxtehude, using two surviving Arp Schnitger organs in Hamburg and Norden. From the free, improvisatory toccatas set against rigorously constructed fugues, to chorale preludes rich in ornamentation, this recording goes beyond the familiar image of Buxtehude as merely a forerunner of Bach, reviving for the present day the brilliance and power of the music of a “star musician” who flourished in Lübeck.

Dieterich Buxtehude (ca.1637-1707):

Disc I
Recorded at St. Jacobi Church, Hamburg

• 1    Praeludium in d  BuxWV140
• 2    Nun bitten wir den heiligem Geist  BuxWV208
• 3-7    Te Deum  BuxWV218
• 8    Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott  BuxWV184
• 9    Canzona in C  BuxWV166
• 10    Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein  BuxWV210
• 11    Nun bitten wir den heiligem Geist 
• 12    Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren [I]  BuxWV212 
• 13    Toccata in F  BuxWV156

Disc II
Recorded at St. Ludgeri Church, Norden

• 1    Praeludium in g  BuxWV148 
• 2    Vater unser im Himmelreich  BuxWV219
• 3-5    Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren [II]  BuxWV213
• 6    Es spricht der unweisen Mund wohl  BuxWV187
• 7    Magnificat primi toni [II]   BuxWV204
• 8-9    Magnificat noni toni  BuxWV205
• 10    Nun lob, mein Seel, der Herren [IV]  BuxWV215 
• 11    Praeludium in C  BuxWV138 
• 12    Komm, Heiliger, Geist [I]  BuxWV199
• 13    Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ   BuxWV196
• 14    Magnificat primi toni   BuxWV203
• 15    Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort  BuxWV185
• 16    Praeludium in D   BuxWV139 
  

Yuichiro Shiina, organ

Recording Location: St. Jacobi Church, Hamburg, on 29-31 August 2024 / St. Ludgeri Church, Norden, on 2-4 September 2024
Recording Engineer: Yukio Kojima
Music Editing: Takako Yanagisawa
Organ Tuner: Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau (Hamburg), Thiemo Jansen (Norden)
Notes: Yuichiro Shiina
Translation: Jonathan Baum
Cover Design: Waka Harada
Booklet Editor: Kensuke Fujii
Special Thanks: Agnes Luchterhandt, Thiemo Jansen