Suddeutsche Orgelmeister, Vol. 4: Buxheimer Orgelbuch
performed by
Joseph Kelemen (organ)
composed by
Anonymous, Buxheimer Orgelbuch, Recorded Sound
The Buxheimer Organ Book, compiled around 1470, was the largest collection of keyboard music of the Renaissance era, containing more than 250 pieces. Hungarian-born organist Joseph Kelemen here delves into such questions as fingering in the booklet, but for general listeners the main attractions are the pair of historically appropriate small pipe organs on which the music is performed. One of them, an anonymous instrument at the St. Andreaskirche (St. Andrew's Church) in Soest-Ostönnen, Germany, was built in 1425 and is ...
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The Buxheimer Organ Book, compiled around 1470, was the largest collection of keyboard music of the Renaissance era, containing more than 250 pieces. Hungarian-born organist Joseph Kelemen here delves into such questions as fingering in the booklet, but for general listeners the main attractions are the pair of historically appropriate small pipe organs on which the music is performed. One of them, an anonymous instrument at the St. Andreaskirche (St. Andrew's Church) in Soest-Ostönnen, Germany, was built in 1425 and is among the oldest playable organs in the world. The Buxheimer Organ Book is often sampled, but recordings with a substantial representative group of selections from the book are not common; still less common are recordings with really strong engineering. The music is essentially medieval in style, and it was written for liturgical use; hearing a lot of it in sequence requires a listener inclined toward medieval music. But the album could serve as a kind of cornerstone of a library of...
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- Church Bells: Glocke St. Andreaskirche Ostönnen
- Redeuntes in Idem, for organ
- Wollhin lass vögelin sorgen (219) (Buxheim organ book)
- Portugaler (Das Buxheimer Orgelbuch, Folio 43)
- Vil lieber zeit uff diser Erde (51) (Buxheim organ book)
- Kyrie eleison Angelicum, No. 153-155
- Praeambulum super C, chanson setting
- Praeambulum super mi, for organ
- Redeuntes in Mi, for organ (Buxheimer Orgelbuch)
- Allegalea, No. 185
- Praeambulum super d, chanson setting
- Gaudeamus (omnes in Domino), setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 35)
- Ellend du hast umbfangen mich, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 48)
- Sequitur adhuc semel Ellend und Jamer, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 49)
- Redeuntes in Idem, for organ
- Ein fröuwlin edel von natueren, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 19)
- Veni virgo, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 76)
- Salve Radix Josophanie, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 250)
- Se la phase pale (after Dufay)
- Redeuntes in D minor, for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 232b)
- Descendi in ortum meum, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 161)
- Rorate celi desuper et nubes pl(uant iustum), setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 36)
- Jeloy mors, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 18)
- Redeuntes in la, for organ
- Anna vasanna, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 92)
- Kyrie de Sancta Maria Virgine
- Ave Regina, setting for organ (Buxheim Organ Book No. 258)
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