Masaaki Suzuki
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Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Christian Immler (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Stripping the score right back, Suzuki makes musicianship dominate. He taps into the subtle arts of his fellow performers, especially Carolyn Sampson, to create a benchmark performance…Sampson... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Choral
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Building a Library, September 2020, Recommended Recording
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Bach - Motets
RecommendedYukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus. Instrumental support... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Award Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Chorale
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording
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Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 3
on the Great Silbermann Organ of Freiberg Cathedral
Masaaki Suzuki (organ)
Suzuki’s performances are at times quite measured, even understated, although that makes the moments when flair shines through all the more exciting. Overall it is the magisterial sense of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
RecommendedAnn-Helen Moen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Allan Clayton (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
This marvelous performance is reproduced in superb, lifelike sound, full of impact but without any sense of artificial enhancement. Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have given us... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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If, as is often said, Bach saw fugue as simply the most natural medium for composing beautiful music, Suzuki demonstrates that it is also good for the exciting, the playful, the sombre, and... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
RecommendedAnn-Helen Moen (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Benjamin Bevan (baritone)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The orchestra and chorus are comparatively small under Suzuki, the tempos slightly on the fast side, the soloists able to cope with the appalling difficulties of their music, but not outstandingly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th March 2018
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Record Review, 31st March 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Bach - Secular Cantatas I
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommended Recording
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 55
RecommendedHana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
There's a striking transparency in even the densest of counterpoint...Over 18 years Suzuki seems to have subtly changed his relationship with Bach, from a reverential approach to confident familiarity.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Bach - Secular Cantatas VIII
Celebratory Cantatas
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Hiroya Aoki (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor) & Roderick Williams (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Both the gentleness and ecstatic immediacy of Bach’s rich imagery become apparent at the outset and each movement is performed at a compellingly high level. The liquid and brilliantly projected... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedGerd Türk (Evangelist), Ingrid Schmithüsen (soprano), Yoshie Hida (soprano), Yoshikazu Mera (counter-tenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Chiyuki Urano (bass), Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Bach seems to have performed his St John Passion on four Good Fridays during his tenure as Thomaskantor at Leipzig. However, he continued to make significant revisions right up to the last performance... —
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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