Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri

An exciting young Dutch early-music collective takes on a 17th-century masterpiece Lenten devotion.

Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude
Artists: Luthers Bach Ensemble & Tymen Jan Bronda (artistic director)

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Membra Jesu nostri consists of seven cantatas which graphically depict the suffering of Christ and the different parts of his tormented body. The surprising beauty and integrity of the cycle as a whole lies in its combination of the strict Protestant North German style with that of the Italian school, the symbiosis of mystical outbursts and dancing, transparent and almost ethereal textures.

The Groningen-based Luthers Bach Ensemble recorded this in spring 2021, at the height of the pandemic, through which they have played as active a part in the city’s cultural scene as possible with socially distanced concerts and music-making. Formed in 2006, the LBE can call upon a pool of highly practised early-music specialists in both voices and instruments, as well as the longer Dutch history of historically informed performance praxis.

The stylistic pedigree of this new recording of Membra Jesu nostri places it alongside the great recordings of the cycle over the course of the last half-century. A fine balance is struck between the solemn piety of the cycle’s text and the assuaging pathos of its expression, with its many striking contrasts of solo and large-scale textures, its passionate outbursts and reflective melismas.

The ensemble’s founder-director is Tymen Jan Bronda, who has been the cantor-organist at the ensemble’s home of the Lutheran Church in Groningen since 2001. The artistic advisor and continuo player on this album is the distinguished Dutch harpsichordist Robert Koolstra, and the ensemble is led by Cecilia Bernadini (daughter of the oboist Alfredo Bernadini), who has also been the leader of the Dunedin Consort since 2012.

Tracklist:
Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, cantata I ad pedes:
00:00 I. Sonata
00:46 II. Ecce super montes
01:53 III. Salve mundi salutare
03:23 IV. Clavos pedum
04:52 V. Dulcis Jesu
06:28 VI. Ecce super montes
07:29 VII. Salve mundi salutare

Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, cantata II ad genua:
08:14 I. Sonata in tremolo
09:25 II. Ad ubera portabimini
10:54 III. Salve Jesu
12:08 IV. Quid sum tibi responsurus
13:14 V. Ut te quaeram
14:20 VI. Ad ubera portabimini

Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, cantata III ad manus:
15:56 I. Sonata
16:57 II. Quid sunt plagae
19:08 III. Salve Jesu
20:39 IV. Manus sanctae
22:09 V. In cruore tuo lotum
23:45 VI. Quid sunt plagae

Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, cantata IV ad latus:
25:51 I. Sonata
26:28 II. Surge, amica mea
27:59 III. Salve latus
29:10 IV. Ecce tibi appropinquo
30:21 V. Hora mortis
31:38 VI. Surge, amica mea

Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, cantata V ad pectus:
33:09 I. Sonata
33:50 II. Sicut modo geniti
36:06 III. Salve, salus mea
37:23 IV. Pectus mihi confer mundum
38:49 V. Ave, verum templum dei
40:17 VI. Sicut modo geniti

Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, cantata VI ad cor:
42:53 I. Sonata
45:14 II. Vulnerasti cor meum
47:45 III. Summi regis cor
48:32 IV. Per medullam
49:19 V. Viva cordis voce clamo
50:34 VI. Vulnerasti cor meum

Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, cantata VII ad faciem:
52:52 I. Sonata
53:35 II. Illustra faciem tuam
54:49 III. Salve, caput cruentatum
55:53 IV. Dum me mori est necesse
57:29 V. Cum me jubes emigrare
58:20 VI. Amen

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