As the composer that Johann Sebastian Bach at the age of 20 walked more than 400 kilometers in order to meet, Dietrich Buxtehude holds a place of honor in the history of music. Luckily, an important portion of his music, mainly vocal works and organ pieces, has also survived. Having spent his childhood and early years in Helsingborg and Elsinore, on either side of the strait that divides Denmark and Sweden, Buxtehude was recruited as organist by the congregation of the great Marienkirche in the wealthy Hanseatic city of Lubeck. On the basis of this, as well as the challenges posed by his organ compositions, it is safe to assume that he was a virtuoso on his instrument. He would also have been a connoisseur of fine organs - the finest of which at the time were to found in Northern Germany. Two such magnificent instruments still exist in the small towns of Altenbruch and Ludingworth, some 130 kilometers west of Lubeck, and on them Massaki Suzuki here performs a varied selection of Buxtehude"s organ works. This ranges from brief chorale prelude to the magnificent Te Deum laudamus and the celebrated Ciaccona in E minor.