Dietrich Buxtehude Passacaglia d minor

Recorded on 21th May 2010 on the late renaissance organ (organ builder anonym ca. 1600) in the late gothic church Saint-Jacques in Liège, Belgium. This instrument, restaured in 1998 by the organ builder Schumacher (Baelen). The unmodified quarter-comma meantone temperament of the organ allows to play the Passacaglia as it is tonally restricted, whereas a lot of the later works use the fifths of flat major and f sharp, showing that Buxtehude had his organ tuned in an more equational like the Werckmeister tem
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