The Chorale Variations on ‘Danket dem Herren’, BuxWV181 comprise three sections or ‘verses’. In the first, the unembellished melody is given to the highest of the three voices; in the second it is the middle voice (unusually for Buxtehude) and played on an eight-foot pedal stop; and in the third it is the lowest voice.
from notes by Relf Clark © 2011