December 1705: Buxtehude & J.S. Bach Organ Music

A famous musical encounter brought to life with pieces by the elderly Buxtehude and the young Bach.
In October 1705, the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach, organist of the Bonifatiuskirche in Arnstadt, asked his superiors for a four-week-leave to go and listen to Buxtehude: a 400-km-journey on foot to Lübeck, where he attended the Abendmusiken at the Marienkirche. Four weeks became four months, and on his return, Bach was clapped in irons for several days for insubordination. After that, however, the superiors of the Bonifatiuskirche noticed that: ‘After this long journey, he could play astonishing chorale variations and would combine them with unknown harmonies to an extent that confused the faithful.’

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude
Artists: Manuel Tomadin

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Bach never left a record of whether he and the greatest organist of his day even met; perhaps the young man preferred to listen to Buxtehude in secret, silently, while the old man practised in the Marienkirche. Buxtehude’s music presents a unique blend of the North German organ school with influences from abroad such as the English virginalists and the Italian masters of more free-form genres such as the canzona and toccata. Such a unique, cosmopolitan voice evidently made a profound effect on the young Bach, whose horizons had hitherto been comparatively limited to the musicians and traditions of Saxony where he had grown up.
Manuel Tomadin’s unique new recital imagines and stages this musical encounter and its ramifications. Some of Buxtehude’s grandest and boldest organ music is featured, including the D minor Passacaglia and the C major Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne, as well as a virtuosic set of chorale variations on Gelobet seist Du, Jesu Christ. As if in answer, Tomadin plays the brilliant early G major Fantasia with its toccata-like opening, a richly chromatic central Adagio and concluding fugue with a particularly demanding pedal part.

Tracklist:

00:00:00 Dietrich Buxtehude: Toccata in D Minor, BuxWV 155
00:07:27 Dietrich Buxtehude: Fugue in C Major, BuxWV 174
00:10:26 Dietrich Buxtehude: Gelobet seist Du, Jesu Christ, BuxWV 188 a 2 Clav.
00:19:33 Dietrich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161
00:25:55 Dietrich Buxtehude: Prelude Fugue and Ciaccona in C Major, BuxWV 137
00:31:24 Dietrich Buxtehude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211
00:33:22 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia in G Major, BWV 571: I. No Tempo Indication
00:37:12 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia in G Major, BWV 571: II. Adagio
00:39:05 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia in G Major, BWV 571: III. Allegro
00:41:21 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue à la gigue, BWV 577
00:44:34 Johann Sebastian Bach: Vater Unser im Himmelreich, BWV 762 a 2 Clav. é Ped.
00:47:58 Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 551
00:53:19 Johann Sebastian Bach: Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 1128 a 2 Clav. é Ped
01:01:26 Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in C Major, BWV 566


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