D. Buxtehude's Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder mit Werken Performed by Collegium Cartusianum & Kölner Kammerchor Directed by Peter Neumann

Continuing with the High Church Lutheranism theme, a cantata that takes as its text starting at the XVII^th verse of the III^rd chapter of the Epistle Of Saint Paul To The Colossians: "All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."

Incidentally, I first heard the names Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524-1594) in a most unlikely source: John Steinbeck's non-fiction classic, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, in which bohemian marine biologist Ed Ricketts, the model for the character "Doc" in Cannery Row, cites both composers, along with Johann Sebastian Bach, as exemplars of his philosophy of "Breaking Through."

More of the great Dane's work can be heard in these previous posts of mine — Dieterich Buxtehude's Alleluja Performed by the Ricercar Consort, Directed by Philippe Pierlot, Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri Performed by La Venexiana, and Dieterich Buxtehude's Prelude in G Minor Played by Gustav Leonhardt.