Buxtehude - "Membra Jesu Nostri" BuxWV75 - Part 1/7

DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE (C. 1637-1707)

"Membra Jesu Nostri" for two violins, viola da gamba, basso continuo, two sopranos, alto, tenor, and bass BuxWV75

1. Ad pedes

Performed by the Netherlands Bach Society
Featuring Anne Grimm, soprano
Johannette Zomer, soprano
Peter de Groot, alto
Andrew Tortise, tenor
Bas Ramselaar, bass
Directed by Jos van Veldhoven

TEXT

Ecce super montes
pedes evangelizantis
et annunciantis pacem

Salve mundi salutare,
salve Jesu care!
Cruci tuae me aptare
vellem vere, tu scis quare,
da mihi tui copiam

Clavos pedum, plagas duras,
et tam graves impressuras
circumplector cum affectu,
tuo pavens in aspectu,
tuorum memor vulnerum

Dulcis Jesu, pie deus,
Ad te clamo licet reus,
praebe mihi te benignum,
ne repellas me indignum
de tuis sanctis pedibus

*Membra Jesu Nostri (English: The Limbs of our Lord Jesus), is a cycle of seven cantatas composed by Dieterich Buxtehude in 1680, and dedicated to Gustaf Düben. This work is known as the first Lutheran oratorio. The text, Salve mundi salutare also known as the Rhythmica oratio is a poem written by Medieval poet Arnulf of Louvain (d. 1250). It is divided into seven parts, each addressed to a different part of Christ's crucified body: feet, knees, hands, side, chest, heart, and head.

Each cantata in Membra Jesu Nostri is divided into six sections; an instrumental introduction; a concerto for instruments and five voices (SSATB), with the exception of the fifth and sixth cantatas where only three voices are used; three arias for one or three voices, each followed by an instrumental ritornello; and an exact reprise of the concerto. The last cantata of the cycle, Ad faciem, is the only one that deviates from this pattern, with a final Amen chorus substituting for the reprise.

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Tags:

• baroque
• classical
• bach
• handel
• organ
• pachelbel
• canon
• harpsichord
• prelude
• suite
• chorale
• fugue
• stylus
• phantasticus

[OedipusColoneus]

Many of the baroque composers would die to write music with such elevation. This cycle of cantatas are one of the highest moment in history of music.

[HerculesOlimpio]

simply WONDERFUL!!!!!!!

[bobbygnosis]

@themindbusterator Cowbell.

[pautalux]

Esecuzione delicatissima, piena di attenzione

[themindbusterator]

justin beiber

[jpblagoeva]

Sounds like Heaven! Quel recomfort dans ma detresse!

Grand m e r c i, HARMONICO101!

[melisilus]

@OedipusColoneus; I could not have said it better!

[debartzen]

Gran composición."Membra Jesu nostri."

[damdarch]

I like the gruesomeness of this whole Membra Jesu Nostri thing. I wish more composers put it to music. I bet Vivaldi's would have been awesome (complete with hammer blows and taunting guards).