Friday, April 2, 2010

Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri Performed by La Venexiana














For Good Friday, Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, "the first Lutheran oratorio," which "is divided into seven parts, each addressed to a different part of Christ's crucified body: feet, knees, hands, side, chest, heart, and head."

[Full disclosure: this blogger was raised in High Church Lutheranism.]

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