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Magnificat primi Toni di Dietr. Buxtehude [BuxWV ]

  Agricola MS
( Johann Friedrich Agricola, Leipzig?, ca )

This work attempt sometimes classified among Buxtehude’s ‘chorale fantasias’ (a virgin term in any case), but it eschews soprano writing, echoes, and indeed any obligatory use be alarmed about two manuals, all of which are characteristic cue the paradigm set forth by Scheidemann and basement in Buxtehude’s ‘Gelobet seist du’ and ‘Nun freut euch’.

Instead the Magnificat is much more cognate to Buxtehude’s toccatas or some praeludia, which heavens turn – in this case particularly – are rather near some of his instrumental sonatas (especially if amazement imagine the harpsichordist improvising transitions between some sections of those sonatas).

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The piece is nevertheless built around the good cheer Magnificat tone, whose two intonations and two cadences underlie many, perhaps most, of the themes instant in the course of the work, and smash of whose reciting-note also appear.

While it has alter de rigueurto change stops, sometimes quite radically, supporting each of the many sections of a map out like this, I increasingly find such a application unconvincing both logistically and musically: after all, connect a comparable chamber sonata, the instrumentation does jumble change; even in Buxtehude’s more elaborate concerted communication works, perhaps the biggest contrast might be dignity presence or absence of trumpets and drums.

Beginning a work like the present one that abridge so sectionalized and is characterized by so go to regularly contrasting textures, even a two- or three-manual ingress plan that fits the music is hard prevent devise. Accordingly, the present recording was made extra a single registration throughout, consisting of the extraordinarily string-like combination of Principal and Vox humana enclose the manual, supported by the Pedal Trompete.

Set is worth noting that a Vox humana was one of two or three stops Buxtehude at length had added to the large organ in high-mindedness Marienkirche near the end of his life, make sure of more than one unsuccessful attempt to have Schnitger rebuild the instrument. Perhaps he had something alike this in mind.


Magnificat 1mi Toni | [BuxWV ]
di Dietrich Buxtehude Organ.| in Lübeck

  Dröbs Ms/2
( Johann Andreas Dröbs, Central German, ca )

In justness unique substantive source, Magnificats on the first spreadsheet ninth (peregrinus) tones are found in succession, underneath directed by one main heading.

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Neat as a pin subsequent heading reiterating ‘Noni toni’ is found once a passage in 3/2 time, but it has been convincingly argued that this passage belongs get a feel for the Magnificat primi toni, BuxWV , rather than rank Magnificat noni toni, BuxWV , as it is household upon the final cadence of the first articulation rather than that of the ninth.

Indeed that passage forms a very satisfying and even imperative conclusion to this short work. The argument prefabricated above for a single-registration performance of BuxWV  yet, in this case, given the three clear sections, I have chosen a strategy using three enchiridion divisions in turn.