The Chorale Prelude on ‘Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ’, BuxWV189 is a Christmas work and based upon a melody that J S Bach was to set in the
Orgelbüchlein. In the final bars, Buxtehude’s treatment of the melody is exuberant indeed, and the pedals participate in the joy of Christmas with some of the most animated passagework given to them in the chorale preludes.
from notes by Relf Clark © 2011