Generalist listeners tend to know the German-Danish Baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude through a few organ works that one imagines were the ones Bach walked hundreds of miles to hear as a young man -- dense treatments of chorales and some big quasi-improvisatory-movement-and-fugue combinations that you could put on your stereo and rattle not only your own foundation but those of your neighbors. More of his music has become available in recent years, however, and there are even several available recordings of his trio ...
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Generalist listeners tend to know the German-Danish Baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude through a few organ works that one imagines were the ones Bach walked hundreds of miles to hear as a young man -- dense treatments of chorales and some big quasi-improvisatory-movement-and-fugue combinations that you could put on your stereo and rattle not only your own foundation but those of your neighbors. More of his music has become available in recent years, however, and there are even several available recordings of his trio sonatas. This disc is drawn from a survey of Buxtehude's chamber music by two veteran period-instrument players, violinist John Holloway and gambist Jaap ter Linden. There are seven trio sonatas in this set, which was closely related to the composer's Op. 1 group (available on another disc with the same performers). They have between three and five movements each. Anyone expecting Baroque trio sonatas that follow a set of pre-established procedures will be surprised, for every one of...
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