Buxtehude, Dietrich - Membra Jesu Nostri - Jacobs, René (conductor)
Buxtehude was the greatest German composer between Schütz and Bach. In 1680 the organist of the Marienkirche in Lubeck wrote a highly unusual cycle of cantatas based on a medieval Latin hymn, Salve mundi salutare, which has since become a classic of Baroque sacred music. This imaginative contemplation of the sufferings of Christ from feet (Ad pedes) to face (Ad faciem) - by way of the knees, the hands, the side, the breast and the heart - has already been recorded once by harmonia mundi, back in 1990. Now you can admire the same performers in a film dating from 2005, naturally still conducted by René Jacobs!
Countertenor -
Andreas SchollMaria Cristina Kiehr, soprano
Rosa Dominguez, soprano
Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Gerd Türk, tenor
Ulrich Messthaler, bass
Chiara Banchini; René Jacobs
Buxtehude, Scholl, Jacobs, Grimm
Membra Jesu Nostri