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Buxtehude: Sonatas, Op. 2

Purcell Quartet

Buxtehude: Sonatas, Op. 2

…richly textured, technically accomplished performance
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1
Sonata in B flat Major, Op. 2, No. 1, BuxWV 259

Sonata in B flat Major, Op. 2, No. 1, BuxWV 259
Composer Dietrich Buxtehude
Band Purcell Quartet
07:24 Play $3.40
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Sonata in D Major, Op. 2, No. 2, BuxWV 260

Sonata in D Major, Op. 2, No. 2, BuxWV 260
Composer Dietrich Buxtehude
Band Purcell Quartet
11:56 Play $5.10
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Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 3, BuxWV 261

Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 3, BuxWV 261
Composer Dietrich Buxtehude
Band Purcell Quartet
10:35 Play $5.10
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Sonata in C minor, Op. 2, No. 4, BuxWV 262

Sonata in C minor, Op. 2, No. 4, BuxWV 262
Composer Dietrich Buxtehude
Band Purcell Quartet
07:11 Play $3.40
5
Sonata in A Major, Op. 2, No. 5, BuxWV 263

Sonata in A Major, Op. 2, No. 5, BuxWV 263
Composer Dietrich Buxtehude
Band Purcell Quartet
08:45 Play $3.40
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Sonata in E Major, Op. 2, No. 6, BuxWV 264

Sonata in E Major, Op. 2, No. 6, BuxWV 264
Composer Dietrich Buxtehude
Band Purcell Quartet
09:17 Play $3.40
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Sonata in F Major, Op. 2, No. 7, BuxWV 265

Sonata in F Major, Op. 2, No. 7, BuxWV 265
Composer Dietrich Buxtehude
Band Purcell Quartet
07:41 Play $3.40
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These Trio Sonatas for violin, viola da gamba, and harpsichord are remarkable examples of Buxtehude's beautiful chamber music. Inventive and full of life, each of the sonatas is different from the others, ranging from dance-like pieces and little fugues to variation sets with some dynamic duets between the violin and viola da gamba, and slow, airy pieces too.

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‘...these sonatas have their own sense of poise and are ever likeable. As before, the violinists of the Purcell Quartet share the workload... Of the two, Mackintosh is the lighter in tone, wispier and ever so slightly astringent next to Weiss's firmer and more nutty sound.  All four musicians, however, reveal their experience and expertise as interpreters, particularly of this kind of German repertoire, which they have been championing for some time now...' Gramophone 

    
By the end of his life, the fame of Dietrich Buxtehude as an organist was so great that in 1706 the young J.S. Bach took four weeks' leave from his employment at Arnstadt and travelled on foot over 200 miles to Lübeck to hear him perform in concert. Ironically, the meteoric rise of the career of Bach himself as a composer meant that, until very recently, Buxtehude was primarily known simply as a forerunner to the great man, when in fact he was a major composer in his own right.

Through twenty-nine years and nearly fifty recordings of a huge range of repertoire, The Purcell Quartet has established itself as a leader in the area of baroque chamber music, not shrinking away from taking on fully staged productions of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Orfeo.

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