DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Organ Works vol. 3
Bine Bryndorf, organ

Dietrich Buxtehude, composer

About
On the third release in Dacapo Records' acclaimed Buxtehude series, Bine Bryndorf has crossed the Sound between Denmark and Sweden and reaches St Mary’s Church in Helsingborg, where Buxtehude was organist in the years 1657-60.

The three St Mary’s Churches in Helsingør (Denmark), Helsingborg (Sweden) and Lübeck (Germany) run as a connecting strand through the life of Danish-born composer Dietrich Buxtehude. With Dacapo Records’ major recording of Buxtehude’s complete organ works it is possible for the first time to follow in the composer’s footsteps with young professor Bine Bryndorf at the historic keyboards.

ABOUT THE ORGAN
The organ of Helsingborg’s St Mary’s Church is a thrilling Baroque instrument – even better in fact than the organ Buxtehude himself played on when he was organist at the church. For recently when it became necessary to renew the organ of St Mary’s Church, the opportunity was seized to look both forward and back. There was a wish to hear the authentic Buxtehude sound in the old church interior; but instead of simply copying Buxtehude’s old instrument, the Swedish organ builder Robert Gustavsson has used his imagination and various historical models to create a Baroque organ that corresponds to Buxtehude’s ideal – that is, a brand new organ in 1660-style was built. The new organ was ready in the year 2000.

Hear Bine Bryndorf unfold her talents at the fine new Buxtehude organ of Helsingborg on the third release of Dacapo’s major Buxtehude series.

Reviews
Bryndorf's Buxtehude set, when complete, will be highly recommendable - she plays with great beauty and insight on organs of high quality.
(Classical Music Web)

This is proving to be a very fine series ... Bryndorf shows herself to be the perfect advocate for and interpreter of these all-too-rarelyheard pieces.
(10/10 ClassicsToday.com on 8.226008)

Bryndorf spiller med vanlig bravour i en fin optagelse ... En spændende serie at følge!
(Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten)

this first disc in Bine Bryndorf´s complete survey of Buxtehude´s extant organ music is superb.
(Church Music, uk)

The Danish organist Bine Bryndorf plays the tightly composed flights with protean clarity, her moods, now skittish, now majestic, shifting with the brilliant colours of the registrations on this recording.
(The Times)

...her playing is exemplary. She eschews hollow mannerisms and empty rhetoric and concentrates on the subtle, but unbelievably musical delivery of a line...Buy!
(Early Music Review, GB)

Ligesom på de foregående (Vol.1 og 2 i rækken af Buxtehudes samlede værker) er der tale om musiceren i høj klasse.
(Musikeren)

Volume three comprises a well-chosen and well-ordered selection of free and chorale-based works, immaculately played on a new 15-stop organ...full of character.
(Early Music Today)

Credits
Recorded in St. Mary’s Church, Helsingborg, on 17-18 November 2003

Assistant: Jette Mogensen
Recording producer: Henrik Sleiborg
Sound engineer and mastering: Clemens Johansen
Graphic design: www.elevator-design.dk

Our heartfelt thanks to the parish council and organist of St. Mary’s Church for making the church and organ available for the recordings! Thanks too to the church organist, Mats Hultkvist, for tuning the organ.

This CD has been recorded in cooperation with the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)