Each CD is designed in the manner of an exciting concert programme revealing two things: first, the variety of Buxtehude’s compositions, which include free pieces and chorale settings to be executed on the manuals or with virtuosic pedal playing and occur in styles ranging from nimble canzonettas and basso ostinato forms filled with gravity to strict textures in “erudite counterpoint”; second, the vast tonal resources of the Treutmann organ, both in the sense of varietas and in view of the line of suspense traced by the musical keys. It is thus that Vol.1 forms the beginning with magnificent works by the most important Baroque master of organ artistry prior to and along with Johann Sebastian Bach.