Young Bach walked from Arnstadt to Lübeck so that he could learn from this man: Dietrich Buxtehude, originally from Helsingborg in Denmark, organist of Lübeck’s Church of St. Mary for nearly forty years, was an institution in the musical life of Northern Germany and had a lasting influence on generations of composers. Paul Hillier and his ensemble THEATRE OF VOICES show him integrated into a wide reaching network of musical relations that stretched from Denmark and Sweden all the way to Italy. They perform two of his less played Swedish cantatas and move some less known predecessors, contemporaries and students of the master into the present day limelight.