• Classical
  Unbestritten
  Weltklasse
  
  Buxtehude:...
  Bine Bryndorf
  Dacapo
  The Danish-born organ master Dietrich Buxtehude's (c.1637-1707) music greatly influenced the younger J.S. Bach with...
• Classical
  Sechs Stimmen
  
  Buxtehude:...
  Bine Bryndorf, Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier, TOV Band & Else Torp
  Dacapo
  This recording offers an unusual selection of Dietrich Buxtehude's vocal music performed by the Grammy-winning...
• Classical
  Tour de Force
  
  Buxtehude:...
  Bine Bryndorf
  Dacapo
  This album is a tour-de-force in every respect – the performances are magnificent, and the multichannel surround...

Bine Bryndorf - Organ
Bine Bryndorf was born in Elsinore (Helsingør) and took her first organ lessons with Kristian Olesen and Bo Grønbech. In 1987-1991 she studied organ with Michael Radulescu and harpsichord with Gordon Murray at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. Later came studies with William Porter in Boston and Daniel Roth in Paris. After taking her diploma in sacred music, organ, and harpsichord, Bine Bryndorf was engaged as an assistant to Michael Radulescu in Vienna. In 1994 she was engaged as an associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and in January 2001 she was appointed a professor at the same institution. Since 1996 she has also been the organist at Vartov Church, Copenhagen.
Bine Bryndorf has won prizes in organ competitions in Innsbruck, Bruges, and Odense and in chamber music competitions in Melk and Copenhagen (P2 Music, DR). In 1999-2000 she was The Danish Radio’s first Artist in Residence. Bine Bryndorf has a wide-ranging career as a soloist and chamber musician, teaches master classes in Europe and the USA and is a jury member in organ competitions. At present Bine Bryndorf is recording Buxtehude's complete organ music for Buxtehude in a series of 6 CDs.


Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707) - Composer
The Baroque master Buxtehude is one of the greatest Danish composers ever. His career was spread over three different regions: Denmark, southern Sweden and northern Germany. But Buxtehude considered himself a Dane. For the last forty years of his life he worked in Lübeck, where he was organist at the large Mariairche; before that, oddly enough, he had been organist in churches of the same name in both Helsingør and Helsingborg. His fame as an organist was very considerable. Bach walked all the way from Arnstadt to Lübeck to study with Buxtehude, and was crucially influenced by his meeting with the older composer, as was Händel. For a long time knowledge of Buxtehude's works was limited to the organ works and his major sacred choral works. Along with other Baroque composers, Buxtehude was "rediscovered" in the mid-nineteenth century, and his organ works were republished as an example of the style current before J.S. Bach. Interest in his chamber music works, however, has only gathered momentum in recent years. In these Buxtehude frolics with great imagination between learned contrapuntal traditions and a freer, more fanciful style. On the whole. Buxtehude's imagination is amazing, and gives his works a lively, improvisational feel. With our present-day fully-rounded picture of Buxtehude's works we can unhesitatingly count him as the greatest composer of the northern European Baroque in the period between Heinrich Schütz and J.S. Bach.

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