Membra Jesu. Works, 10
Beckmann, Klaus / Buxtehude, Dietrich
Under the title Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima, Dietrich Buxtehude presents as a cycle seven formally independent cantatas. The seven cantatas share a similar, though not identical, structure. At the heart of each cantata is an aria setting three strophes from the medieval oratio beginning "Salve mundi salutare" and known in a seventeenth-century form as "Rhythmica oratio ad unum quodlibet membrorum Christi patientis et a cruce pende...