BUXTEHUDE AND HIS COPENHAGEN CONNECTIONS

"I am the resurrection and the life"
Buxtehude and his connections in Copenhagen

1. Buxtehude:I Am the Resurrection and the Life BuxWV 44
2. Erben: Sonata in C, D, E, F, G
3. Meder: God Help Me
4. Weckmann: Toccata in A minor
5. Weckmann: Come Here to Me
6. Förster: Sweet Memory of Jesus
7. Kirchhoff: Sonata for 6
8. Bruhns: My Heart Is Ready
9. Förster: Sonata for 7

“In selecting the works for this recording, we have sought to offer a glimpse into the richness of the music from the Baltic Sea region during the second half of the 17th century. The so-called early Baroque generally stands in the shadow of both the Baroque breakthrough in Northern Italy around 1600 and the style’s high point some hundred years later with the great German masters Telemann, Handel Bach. As our selection of works confirms, 17th-century music is indeed a difficult concept to define. It is a period marked by fearless innovation and effervescent creativity, characterized by formal experimentation that only with the following generation of composers developed into fixed conventions and a higher degree of conformity. It is in the early Baroque that the elements we today regard as defining Baroque music are developed and consolidated. As such, the music of this period is, both literally and figuratively, the very heart of the Baroque.
Jakob Bloch Jespersen

Reviews:
“There is so much here to delight the ear, not least the use of Chorton tuning, where A=465Hz. Highly recommended.”
Andrew Mellor, Gramophone, October 2020

“All of the performances are superb, with that clean and transparent period sound we have come to expect from recordings of this kind”
Dominy Clements, Musicweb International

Performers:
Jakob Bloch Jespersen, bass
Concerto Copenhagen:
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, organ, harpsichord, and musical direction
Frederik From and Hannah Tibell, violin
Antina Hugosson and Jesenka Balic Zunic, violin and viola
Hanna Loftsdóttir and Hanna Thiel, viola da gamba
Heidi Gröger, violone
Gawain Glenton and Josue Melendez, cornett
Jane Gower, dulcian

Released on Dacapo Records in 2020