BUXTEHUDE: Complete Organ Music - 6CD

Dietrich Buxtehude (1673-1707)

Walter Kraft, organ

At the Organ of the Marienkirche, Lübeck

Six Cds, newly remastered and sonically restored
Over 7 hours of music (7:11:39)
87 masterpieces of the organ repertoire with analytical tracking
Original liner notes by Christiane de Lisle

Virtuoso organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude was the predominant North German composer of his generation and the leading organist of the period. his dramatic works, virtuoso masterpieces of Baroque contrapuntal style and structure, would greatly influence his successors - including a young student of his named Johann Sebastian Bach.

Walter Kraft's traversal of Buxtehude's organ works was one of the most ambitious undertakings in the early years of VOX. These landmark recordings, a triumph of the early stereophonic era, were made in the 1957 in the Marienkirche, Lübeck - where Buxtehude himself had been music director - and document a master organist of the mid-20th century at he height of his power and during a period of interpretive transition.