Devotion & Contemplation
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 8 p.m. on YouTube
Recorded at The Franciscan Monastery
Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637/39–1707)
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75
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The North German composer Dieterich Buxtehude (c.1637/39–1707) was held in such high reverence by the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach that he walked 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear the great organist/composer. Membra Jesu nostri is an exquisite cycle of seven short cantatas, each a contemplation of a different part of the body of Christ. Derived from a thirteenth-century poem, the work evinces a vast spectrum of divinely inspired emotion and introspective beauty.
Vocalists:
Sopranos: Margot Rood & Sara MacKimmie
Countertenor: Reginald Mobley
Tenor: Jacob Perry, Jr.
Bass: Jonathan Woody