With this exemplary compilation, Brilliant Classics paints a vivid picture of the composer Dieterich Buxtehude in the most important areas of his oeuvre, drawing on a rich back catalog crowned with new recordings. More than half of the set is dedicated to the ambitious, monumental recording cycle of the complete music for keyboard instruments on 10 CDs, which the organist and harpsichordist Simone Stella carried out in 2010/11. This primacy for the solo piano is only natural when one considers that Buxtehude himself was a gifted performer on these instruments - and it is this repertoire, through its easy dissemination, that exerted its greatest compositional influence on subsequent generations, which included the great Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, born almost 50 years later. But his vocal works were also groundbreaking. For this, Brilliant Classics has licensed important recordings of cantatas for small and large ensembles from 1996 and 2000, originally released by the Danish label Dacapo, featuring the great Emma Kirkby and Danish bass Johan Reuter, as well as a Canadian recording of cantatas for one, two and three soloists from 2002 by Naxos. Brilliant Classics complements these treasures with a vocal gem from its own catalog: Buxtehude's great cycle of seven cantatas, Membra Jesu nostri, in a 2021 recording by the Luthers Bach Ensemble Groningen. Finally, the chamber music is offered in a new release by the Amsterdam ensemble Fantasticus, recorded in 2023 and comprising the trio sonatas Opp. 1 & 2 with an addition of sonatas in manuscript on 3 CDs.

• Kammermusik: Triosonaten BuxWV 252-258 (op. 1 Nr. 1-7); Triosonaten BuxWV 259-265 (op. 2 Nr. 1-7): Sonaten BuxWV 64, 266-269, 271, 272; 2 Sonaten d-moll; Sonate & Suite B-Dur BuxWV 273; Passacaglia BuxWV 161 (arrangiert für Streicher)
  +Cembalowerke: Arien BuxWV 246-250; Suiten BuxWV 226-244, BuxWV deest; Suite d-moll; Courantes BuxWV Anh. 6, 245; Auf meinen lieben Gott BuxWV 179; Canzonen BuxWV 166, 168; Toccata BuxWV 165
  +Orgelwerke: Präludien BuxWV 136-139, 140-153, 162, 163; Praeambulum BuxWV 158; Toccaten BuxWV 155-157, 164, 165; Fugen BWV 174-176; Passacaglia BWV 161; Canzonetta BuxWV 167, 171, 172, 225; Canzonas BuxWV 166, 168, 169, 170, 173; Magnificats BuxWV 203-205; Ciacconas BuxWV 159 & 160; Fantasia super Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ; Te Deum BuxWV 218; Choräle BuxWV 76, 177-181, 183-187, 189-202, 206, 207, 209-215, 217-224
  +Vokalwerke: Kantaten BuxWV 75 "Membra Jesu nostri"; O fröhliche Stunden BuxWV 84; O dulcis Jesu BuxWV 83; Was mich auf dieser Welt betrübt BuxWV 105; Fried- und freudenreiche Hinfahrt BuxWV 76; Schaffe in mir, Gott BuxWV 95; Gen Himmel zu dem Vater mein BuxVW 32; Singet dem Herrn BuxVW 98; Sicut Moses exaltavit serpentem BuxWV 97; Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BuxWV 38; Das neugeborne Kindelein BuxWV 13; Der Herr ist mit mir BuxWV 15; Fürwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit BuxWV 31; Alles, was ihr tut BuxWV 4; Magnificat anima mea, BuxWV Anh. 1; Was frag’ ich nach der Welt BuxWV 1041; Jesu, meine Freud und Lust BuxWV 591; Sicut Moses BuxWV 972; Wenn ich, Herr Jesu, habe dich BuxWV 1071; In te, Domine, speravi BuxWV 531; Jubilate Domino BuxWV 641; Wie schmeckt es so lieblich und wohl BuxWV 1081
  +Anonymus: Sonate d-moll "Lübecker Viola da gamba"

• Artists: Simone Stella, Tymen Jan Bronda, Jon Baxendale, Kerala Snyder, Emma Kirkby, Johan Reuter, Luthers Bach Ensemble, Fantasticus, Kevin Mallon, Pieter-Jan Belder