Dietrich Buxtehude - Praeludium in g

Dietrich Buxtehude - prelude in g minor. Apparently, this was composed for the harpsichord, as the broken chords at the beginning indicate. So, why not play this more like chamber music. Turn your volume down, the original sound is fairly gentle.

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• buxtehude
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• prelude
• praeludium
• präludium
• moll
• minor

[cembalo75]

Composed for harpsichord? Really? So many features correspond to Buxtehude's organ style and to my ears this is not convincing. But an interesting experiment.

[bruhns]

Harald Vogel writes in his CD booklet of Buxtehude's organ works vol. 6: "The Praeludium in g manualiter (BuxWV 163) and the Toccata in G manualiter (BuxWV 165) are much more attached to the harpsichord idiom [than Praeludium in G manualtier BuxWV 162]. For this reason they are not included in this recording of Buxtehude's complete organ works".

[cembalo75]

Yes, that is absolutely correct; however those CDs were made in the 1980's and since that time things have changed, perhaps. Pieter Dirksen has written a very thorough article about this piece. This piece is required for the recorded round of the 2010 Sweelinck competition, an international organ competition.

[bruhns]

Would be interesting for me to read. Where can I find Peter's article?

[alra1975]

I still wonder about the specifications of this organ, it looks like a well built Baroque style inspired instrument (without unnecessary modern aids); for sure it has mechanical key action, mechanical stops, a pedal board almost in the old stile, a gentle sound, but I cannot recognize which organ it could be... Someone can help me? Thanks.

[bruhns]

The instrument (Christuskirche München) was built 1966 by Rieger, Vorarlberg (A) with full mechanical operation. In the 1980s a programmable register control was added. In 2000 an gentle renewing with slight modifications took place by Freiburger Orgelbau Hartwig Späth. "Funny" aliquots like septime and none have been removed and the sharpness of the mixtures has been reduced.

[manuel14091990]

Respekt !! Kirchenorgel würde ich auch mal gerne spielen, derzeit muss ich mich, wenn überhaupt mit Cembalo zufrieden geben ;D !!

5*

[TheUnknownDepths]

gueer hahaha,you one of those retards that play runescape all day long. Only a dumbass like you manages to find himself watching a video he doesn't want to see, whilst at the same time getting the name of the instrument wrong. Looking at the tags you cant just get here without typing the correct words. You want to hear Britney type Britney not Dietrich

[CeremonyConnoisseur]

@Rolmarsden indeed, I just thought about it as well...

[Rolmarsden]

Is it just me or did Handel "borrow" the theme at 2'52 (heard more obviously at 3'20) for Messiah? (And He Shall Purify). Apologies if previous posts have picked this up...

[ASAngelo]

Magic.

[Dachion]

" On some eternal shore in heaven stands buxtehude with the mirror image of what he wrote on earth. "

[KeyFilmation]

the organ is such a powerful instrument.

[paqman67]

@okamilune actually I think that quote was from Jan Adam Reinken who was 99(!) yeras old in 1720. Bach met him when trying out for a post in Hamburg(?) in which I believe he had to ahem, "donate" what was for him 2years of his salray to be placed in the position. Needless to say, Bach declined!

[cembalo75]

OHS catalog - it's in a book Orphei Organae Antiqui a festschrift for Harald Vogel. Unfortunately, the book is expensive and the essay is not published separately so far as I know.