JS Bach: Musikalisches Opfer

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Broadly speaking, Masaaki Suzuki and members of the Bach Collegium follow the order of the pieces as they appear in the original 1747 print…All attain the accomplished standards which we have... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Dec 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2151
Label: BIS
Length: 71 minutes

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Bach, J S: Musical Offering, BWV1079

Work length52:57

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Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord), Ryo Terakado (violin), Yukie Yamaguchi (violin), Emmanuel Balssa (cello), Kiyomi Suga (flute)
Recorded: August 2016
Recording Venue: Old Catholic Church, The Hague, the Netherlands

Canon 1 à 2 cancrizans

Track length1:58

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Canon 2 à 2 violini in unisono

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Canon 3 à 2 per motum contrarium

Track length0:56

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Canon 4 à 2 per augmentationem, contrario motu

Track length1:16

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Canon 5 à 2 per tonos

Track length5:59

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Fuga canonica in epidiapente

Track length2:32

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Ricercar à 3

Track length6:12

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Canon perpetuus super Thema Regium

Track length0:59

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Ricercar à 6

Track length7:27

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Canon à 2 querendo invenietis

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Canon à 4

Track length2:30

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Sonata sopra il Soggetto Reale: I. Largo

Track length5:49

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Sonata sopra il Soggetto Reale: II. Allegro

Track length5:57

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Sonata sopra il Soggetto Reale: III. Andante

Track length3:27

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Sonata sopra il Soggetto Reale: IV. Allegro

Track length3:04

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Canon perpetuus

Track length2:40

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Work length2:25

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Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord)

Aria

Track length2:25

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Bach, J S: Goldberg Canons, BWV1087

Work length8:33

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Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord)
Recorded: August 2016
Recording Venue: Old Catholic Church, The Hague, the Netherlands

No. 1, Canon simplex

Track length0:32

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No. 2, Canon all' roverscio

Track length0:33

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No. 3, Canon in motu recto e contrario

Track length0:33

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No. 4, Canon in motu contrario e recto

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No. 5, Canon duplex à 4

Track length0:33

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No. 6, Canon simplex à 3 über besagtes Fundament

Track length0:35

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No. 7, Canon simplex à 3

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No. 8, Canon simplex à 3 il soggetto in alto

Track length0:34

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No. 9, Canon in unisono post semifusam à 3

Track length0:31

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No. 10, Canon à 2 alio modo per syncopationes et per ligaturas

Track length0:44

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No. 11, Canon duplex übers Fundament à 5

Track length0:33

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No. 12, Canon duplex über Fundamental Noten à 5

Track length1:02

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No. 13, Canon triplex à 6

Track length0:36

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No. 14, Canon à 4 per augmentationem et diminutionem

Track length0:52

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Bach, J S: Trio Sonata in G major, BWV1038

Work length8:01

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Kiyomi Suga (flute), Ryo Terakado (violin), Emmanuel Balssa (cello), Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord)
Recorded: August 2016
Recording Venue: Old Catholic Church, The Hague, the Netherlands

I. Largo

Track length3:04

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II. Vivace

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III. Adagio

Track length2:14

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IV. Presto

Track length1:44

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s appearance on 7th May 1747 at the court of Frederick the Great is the best documented event in the composer’s otherwise unglamorous career. During the proceedings, Frederick provided Bach with an exceptionally difficult theme on which to improvise a fugue. The King is said to have been impressed with the improvisation, but Bach himself was less so, and announced that he intended to set the theme to paper ‘in a regular fugue’. Several months later the Musical Offering appeared in print – a collection of 13 pieces in diverse genres: fugues, canons and a trio sonata, all exploiting the ‘Royal Theme’ in various intricate ways.

Bach’s published score gives no firm idea about a playing order for the pieces, and in most cases no instrument-ation is specified. Furthermore, some of the canons – the so-called ‘riddle canons’ – are very sketchily notated, with just a few notes and some enigmatic clues in Latin. The performers are thus left with an unusual degree of freedom when it comes to the interpretation of the work – a freedom which Masaaki Suzuki, with his colleagues from Bach Collegium Japan, is singularly well-placed to explore. Following the Offering on this disc is another collection of riddle canons by Bach: the ‘14 Canons on the Goldberg Ground’ which were discovered as late as 1974, in the form of a hand-written addendum to the composer’s own printed copy of the Goldberg Variations. The canons are all based on the first eight bass notes of the celebrated Aria from the Goldberg Variations, and are performed here as harpsichord solos, along with the Aria. The disc closes with another chamber work however – the Sonata in G major for flute, violin and basso continuo, BWV 1038.

Reviews

June 2018

Broadly speaking, Masaaki Suzuki and members of the Bach Collegium follow the order of the pieces as they appear in the original 1747 print…All attain the accomplished standards which we have come to expect of this ensemble, the contrapuntal textures enhanced by the translucent recorded sound.

January 2018

Suzuki’s readings of the ricercars find a workable balance between forward momentum and textural lucidity, the trio sonata is tasteful if cool, and the canons are played with exemplary clarity…BIS’s recorded acoustic is perhaps a little ‘big’ for such intimate music, though at no cost to transparency or attractiveness.

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