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With singers on the top of their form, this disc is utterly absorbing from start to finish. 'Ich habe Genug', BWV82… is here in Bach's alternative for soprano, with flute replacing oboe. What... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Dec 2008
Catalogue No: BISSACD1691
Label: BIS
Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
Length: 63 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'

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Peter Kooij
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: September 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Aria. Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Bass)

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Recitative. Mein Wandel auf der Welt (Bass)

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Aria. Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch (Bass)

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Recitative and Aria. Ich stehe fertig und bereit (Bass)

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Chorale. Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'

Work length21:29

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Carolyn Sampson
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: September 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Aria. Ich habe genug (Soprano)

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Recitative. Ich habe genug! Mein Trost ist nur allein (Soprano)

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Aria. Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen (Soprano)

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Recitative. Mein Gott! Wenn kommt das schöne (Soprano)

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Aria. Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod (Soprano)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV158 'Der Friede sei mit dir'

Work length9:54

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Peter Kooij, Hana Blažiková
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: July 2008
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Recitative. Der Freide sei mit dir (Bass)

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Aria with Chorale. Welt, ade, ich bin dein mude (Bass, Soprano)

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Recitative and Arioso. Nun Herr, regiere meinen Sinn (Bass)

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Chorale. Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV84 'Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke'

Work length14:27

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Carolyn Sampson
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: September 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Aria. Ich bin vergnugt mit meinem Glucke (Soprano)

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Recitative. Gott ist mir ja nichts schuldig (Soprano)

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Aria. Ich esse mit Freuden mein weniges Brot (Soprano)

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Recitative. Im Schweisse meines Angesichts (Soprano)

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Chorale. Ich leb indes in dir vergnuget (Chorus)

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As on two other recent instalments (Vols 37 & 38) in his Cantata cycle, Masaaki Suzuki here concentrates on the so-called solo cantatas, providing an opportunity for two of the highly acclaimed soloists of this series, Carolyn Sampson and Peter Kooij, to shine even more brightly.

Of the two cantatas for soprano, Ich habe genung (BWV82) is among the best-known of all of Bach’s cantatas, and was evidently held in high regard from an early stage. It was originally set for bass (and appears as such on Volume 38), and source materials show that Bach performed it at least four times. Bach’s wife Anna Magdalena must also have been especially fond of it: a partial arrangement for soprano and harpsichord was included in her second Klavierbüchlein. Ich bin vergnügt (BWV84) is a slighter work in which the oboe plays an important soloistic part. Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, the weightier of the bass cantatas, is a meditation on the cross of Jesus, but also on the suffering and need that mankind must bear. The texts, by an unknown librettist, inspired Bach to produce music of sublime earnestness, great expressive depth and full of rich, immediate imagery.

Whereas these three cantatas were all composed during the winter of 1726-27, Der Friede sei mit dir has a less certain place in the chronology. It is in fact probable that it was assembled from movements from various sources, perhaps by an arranger rather than by Bach himself.

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February 2009

With singers on the top of their form, this disc is utterly absorbing from start to finish. 'Ich habe Genug', BWV82… is here in Bach's alternative for soprano, with flute replacing oboe. What is lost in balance is gained in pathos for this heartfelt Song of Simeon. Carolyn Sampson's floating line in dialogue with flute, portraying calm acceptance of death in the almost time-less opening movement, is deeply moving, as is her unaffected simplicity in the following lullaby...

May 2009

Carolyn Sampson is radiant in her two cantatas. Ich habe genug rarely seems to me as incrementally effective in E minor as in the earlier bass version but Sampson brings a resigned pathos as persuasive as anything you'll hear. …"Schlummert ein" offers a delicate blend of flute and strings to underpin a beautifully judged innocence of expression, reaching its apogee in an exquisite pianissimo da capo.

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