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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