Harry Christophers, the conductor, is the founder of The Sixteen and also serves as Artistic Director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society.
Compositional Technique
The majority of the Latin text for Membra Jesu Nostri is drawn from a popular medieval poem, 'Salve mundi salutare', which Buxtehude may have compiled himself.
Compositional Technique
The Membra Jesu Nostri cantatas meditate on seven parts of Christ's body on the cross: feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart, and head.
Recording & Production
This album is dedicated to the memory of Jane Coe, who was the principal cellist of The Sixteen for twenty years and loved this disc dearly.
Composition History
Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, dating from 1680, is a unique cycle of seven cantatas because all his other extended pieces combining concerto and aria elements are set in German.
Composer Biography
Dietrich Buxtehude, the composer, stayed in Lübeck for over thirty years, rarely traveled, and never visited Italy, despite his easy assimilation of Italian musical style.
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