Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri Ricercar Consort & Philippe Pierlot

• Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707): Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75:
• 1 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75: Sonata [Ad pedes] 00:41
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pedes:
• 2 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pedes: Concerto "Ecce super montes pedes evangelizantis" 01:08
• 3 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pedes: Aria "Salve mundi salutare" 01:32
• 4 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pedes: Aria "Clavos pedum, plagas duras" 01:33
• 5 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pedes: Aria "Dulcis Jesu, pie Deus" 01:39
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus:
• 6 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Concerto 01:07
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pedes:
• 7 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pedes: Salve mundi salutare 01:07
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad genua:
• 8 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad genua: Sonata in tremulo 01:15
• 9 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad genua: Concerto Ad ubera portabimini 02:08
• 10 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad genua: Aria "Salve Jesu, rex sanctorum" 01:16
• 11 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad genua: Aria "Quid sum tibi responsurus" 01:11
• 12 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad genua: Aria "Ut te quaeram mente pura" 01:15
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus:
• 13 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Concerto 02:17
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75:
• 14 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75: Sonata [Ad manus) 00:44
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad manus:
• 15 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad manus: Concerto "Quid sunt plagae istae in medio manuum tuarum?" 01:55
• 16 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad manus: Aria "Salve Jesu, pastor bone" 01:34
• 17 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad manus: Aria "Manus sanctae, vos amplector" 01:37
• 18 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad manus: Aria "In cruore tuo lotum" 01:41
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus:
• 19 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Concerto 02:19
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75:
• 20 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75: Sonata [Ad latus] 00:34
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus:
• 21 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Concerto "Surge, amica mea" 01:32
• 22 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Aria "Salve latus salvatoris" 01:21
• 23 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Aria "Ecce tibi appropinquo" 01:16
• 24 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Aria "Hora mortis meus flatus" 01:30
• 25 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad latus: Concerto 01:41
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75:
• 26 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75: Sonata [Ad pectus] 00:40
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pectus:
• 27 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pectus: Concerto a 3 voci "Sicut modo geniti infantes rationabiles" 02:48
• 28 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pectus: Aria "Salve, salus mea" 01:23
• 29 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pectus: Aria "Pectus mihi confer mundum" 01:26
• 30 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad pectus: Aria "Ave, verum templum Dei" 01:31
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor:
• 31 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor: Concerto a 3 voci 03:18
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem:
• 32 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem: Sonata 01:55
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor:
• 33 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor: Concerto a 3 voci "Vulnerasti cor meum" 02:18
• 34 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor: Aria "Summi regis cor, aveto" 00:50
• 35 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor: Aria "Per medullam cordis mei" 00:52
• 36 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor: Aria "Viva cordis voce clamo" 01:21
• 37 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad cor: Concerto a 3 voci 02:20
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75:
• 38 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75: Sonata [Ad faciem] 00:42
• Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem:
• 39 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem: Concerto "Illustra faciem tuam" 01:31
• 40 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem: Aria "Salve, caput cruentatum" 01:19
• 41 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem: Aria "Dum me mori est necesse" 01:09
• 42 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem: Aria "Cum me jubes emigrare" 00:54
• 43 Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, Ad faciem: Concerto "Amen" 01:29
• Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34:
• 44 Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34: Sonata 01:45
• 45 Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34: Gott, hilf mir 03:01
• 46 Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34: Concerto Fürchte dich nicht 01:12
• 47 Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34: Israel, hoffe auf den Herren 01:00
• 48 Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34: Choral "Wer hofft in Gott" 01:41
• 49 Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34: Aria "Ach ja, mein Gott, ich hoff auf dich" 04:26
• 50 Gott Hilf Mir, BuxWV 34: Concerto "Israel, hoffe auf den Herren" 02:34
• Total Runtime 01:19:18

Info for Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri

In 1680, Dietrich Buxtehude sent his friend Gustav Düben the score of Membra Jesu nostri. In this perfectly balanced work, he addresses the senses directly, immersing us in the sufferings of Christ: we feel the hammer blows, the heart that stops beating…

Through the genius of his music Buxtehude succeeds in moving us, enlightening us and instructing us in the profound meaning of the text.

Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot, conductor

Philippe Pierlot
was born in Liège. After teaching himself the guitar and the lute, he turned to the viola da gamba, which he studied with Wieland Kuijken. He is active in the fields of chamber music, oratorio, and opera, and divides his activities between viola da gamba and conducting. He has edited and revived a number of operas, including Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse (given at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Lincoln Center in New York, the Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, the Melbourne Festival and La Fenice in Venice, among other venues) and the Sémélé of Marin Marais, as well as Bach’s St Mark Passion. With his ensemble Ricercar Consort he records for the French label Mirare. His most recent CDs have been devoted to Purcell’s Fantazias for viols, Bach cantatas, and music for viol by Couperin. Philippe Pierlot is a professor at the Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.

Ricercar Consort
In 1985 the Ricercar Consort made its first concert tour with Bach’s Musical Offering. The ensemble soon acquired an international reputation, notably in the domain of German Baroque cantatas and instrumental music. It gave many concerts with such singers as Henri Ledroit, Max van Egmond and James Bowman and recorded some fifty discs, among them the complete works of little-known composers like Nikolaus Bruhns and Matthias Weckmann. Today the ensemble is directed by Philippe Pierlot. Alongside large-scale productions such as, in recent years, operas by Provenzale (La Stellidaura), Monteverdi (Il ritorno d’Ulisse) and Telemann (Don Quichotte) and sacred works including Bach’s Passions and cantatas, Handel cantatas and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, it also performs chamber repertoire focusing essentially on music for consort of viols. In 2006 Les Folles Journées of Nantes, Lisbon and Bilbao invited the Ricercar Consort to perform Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. The ensemble then accompanied the soprano Céline Scheen to Tokyo to perform Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, and gave a Marin Marais programme at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. It returned to the same venue in 2007 to perform motets by Dumont and Charpentier with Collegium Vocale Gent. After appearing at the Brussels Bach Académie 2007 in cantatas by Bruhns, the group went on to record a second volume of early Bach cantatas. Its disc of Bach’s Magnificat and Mass in G minor, released in the autumn of 2009, won the prestigious prize of the Académie Charles Cros the following year.

The Ricercar Consort receives support from the Communauté Française de Belgique. It performs at leading festivals such as Boston, Edinburgh, Utrecht, and Tokyo and Warsaw (Handel opera arias). It recently gave the St John Passion at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris.

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