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Title: A monument to the organ music of Buxtehude
Review: I was fortunate enough to be able to buy the seven-CD box set of Buxtehude's complete works for organ, played by Harald Vogel.I cannot praise it enough! Vogel's choice of instruments (all historic instruments from Germany and Denmark, many still in mean-tone or modified mean-tone temperament) ensures that the listener hears the works on the instruments for which they were intended. The CD booklets (in English, French, and German) are full of useful information about the organs (including dispositions and registrations of the works played) and the works themselves. Vogel's playing style is unparalleled in this genre. He possesses an admirable baroque non-legato touch, and Buxtehude's rhapsodic preludiae are suffused with just enough 'stylus phantasticus' to completely impress the listener, without going out of bounds. In short, this series of seven is a true masterwork!!
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