$30.00
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[ Resonus Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 March 2019
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Following their ICMA award- nominated first album on Resonus (A Courtly Garland for Baroque Trumpet), period ensemble Orpheus Britannicus, with director Andrew Arthur, joins with The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and viol consort Newe Vialles for an impelling new recording of Buxtehude's seminal and ground-breaking cycle of cantatas Membra Jesu nostri.
With a distinguished lineup of soloists complementing this magnum opus, Arthur and his musicians give a gripping account of one of the most significant of early-Baroque oratorios.
'[...] the cycle is beautifully interpreted with style, phrasing, dynamics and precise tuning in Werckmeister temperament'
Choir & Organ (5 stars)
1 Cantata I. Ad pedes. Sonata 1:05
2 Cantata I. Ad pedes. Ecce super montes (I) 1:33
3 Cantata I. Ad pedes. Salve mundi salutare (I) 5:01
4 Cantata I. Ad pedes. Ecce super montes (II) 1:32
5 Cantata I. Ad pedes. Salve mundi salutare (II) 1:03
6 Cantata II. Ad genua. Sonata in tremulo 1:09
7 Cantata II. Ad genua. Ad ubera portabimini (I) 1:37
8 Cantata II. Ad genua. Salve Jesu, rex sanctorum 3:37
9 Cantata II. Ad genua. Ad ubera portabimini (II) 1:46
10 Cantata III. Ad manus. Sonata 1:07
11 Cantata III. Ad manus. Quid sunt plagae iste? (I) 2:20
12 Cantata III. Ad manus. Salve Jesu, pastor bone 4:50
13 Cantata III. Ad manus. Quid sunt plagae iste? (II) 2:32
14 Cantata IV. Ad latus. Sonata 0:46
15 Cantata IV. Ad latus. Surge, amica mea (I) 1:50
16 Cantata IV. Ad latus. Salve latus salvatoris 4:16
17 Cantata IV. Ad latus. Surge, amica mea (II) 2:00
18 Cantata V. Ad pectus. Sonata 0:46
19 Cantata V. Ad pectus. Sicut modo geniti infantes (I) 3:03
20 Cantata V. Ad pectus. Salve, salus mea, Deus 4:49
21 Cantata V. Ad pectus. Sicut modo geniti infantes (II) 3:14
22 Cantata VI. Ad cor. Sonata 2:31
23 Cantata VI. Ad cor. Vulnerasti cor meum (I) 2:57
24 Cantata VI. Ad cor. Summi regis cor, aveto 3:13
25 Cantata VI. Ad cor. Vulnerasti cor meum (II) 2:50
26 Cantata VII. Ad faciem. Sonata 0:57
27 Cantata VII. Ad faciem. Illustra faciem tuam 1:44
28 Cantata VII. Ad faciem. Salve, caput cruentatum 4:02
29 Cantata VII. Ad faciem. Amen 1:52