Bach - Cantatas Volume 39 - BIS: BISSACD1641 - SACD or download

None of these five cantatas extends beyond a quarter of an hour and yet the wealth of material is brilliantly compressed in a manner which followers of Bach's chorale cantata Jahrgang, his second... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2008
Catalogue No: BISSACD1641
Label: BIS
Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
Length: 72 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt'

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Peter Kooij (bass), Dmitry Badiarov (cello piccolo)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Concerto Palatino, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: February 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Chorale: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (Chorus)

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Aria: Mein glaubiges Herze (Soprano)

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Recitative: ich bin mit Petro nicht vermessen (Bass)

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Aria: Du bist geboren mir zugute (Bass)

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Wer an ihn glaubet (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV175 'Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen'

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Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Dmitry Badiarov (cello piccolo)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: February 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Recitative: Er rufet seine Schafen mit Namen (Tenor)

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Aria: Komm, leite mich (Alto)

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Recitative: Wo find ich dich (Tenor)

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Aria: Es dunket mich, ich seh dich kommen (Tenor)

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Recitative: Sie vernahmen aber nicht (Alto, Bass)

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Aria: Offnet euch, ihr beiden Ohren (Bass)

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Chorale: Nun, werter Geist, ich folge dir (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV28 'Gottlob, nun geht das Jahr zu Ende'

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Concerto Palatino, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: February 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Aria: Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende (Soprano)

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Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren (Chorus)

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Recitative: So spricht der Herr (Bass)

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Recitative: Gott ist ein Quell, wo lauter Gute fleusst (Tenor)

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Aria: Gott hat uns im heurigen Jahre gesegnet (Alto, Tenor)

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Chorale: All solch dein Gut wir preisen (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV183 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun'

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Dmitry Badiarov (cello piccolo)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: February 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Recitative: Sie werden euch in den Bann tun (Bass)

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Aria: Ich furchte nicht des Todes Schrecken (Tenor)

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Recitative: Ich bin bereit, mein Blut und armes Leben (Alto)

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Aria: Hochster Troster, Heilger Geist (Soprano)

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Chorale: Du bist ein Geist, der lehret (Chorus)

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV85 'Ich bin ein guter Hirt'

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Dmitry Badiarov (cello piccolo)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: February 2007
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan

Aria: Ich bin ein guter Hirt (Bass)

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Aria: Jesus ist ein guter Hirt (Alto)

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Chorale: Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt (Soprano)

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Recitative: Wenn die Mietlinge schlafen (Tenor)

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Aria: Seht, was die Liebe tut (Tenor)

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Chorale: Ist Gott mein Schutz und treuer Hirt (Chorus)

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After two volumes concentrating on solo cantatas, the full forces of Bach Collegium Japan return in this programme of five cantatas dated 1725. The choir instantly makes its presence felt in the first movement of the opening work, BWV68. This is a large-scale hymn arrangement, where the choir is supported by an orchestra featuring horn and oboes. This is followed by one of the most charming and beautiful soprano arias in all of Bach’s cantatas, Mein gläubiges Herze’, in which Carolyn Sampson shines. The five works all include, to a certain extent, unusual instrumental combinations: from the three recorders which lend a pastoral character to Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV175, to the wind quartet (two oboi d’amore and two oboi da caccia) appearing in Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV183. The variety of timbres is further aided by the appearance of the cornet and trombones of Concerto Palatino. Gerd Türk glows in the intensely melodic tenor aria ‘Seht, was die Liebe tut’ (from BWV 85), Peter Kooij, whose bass becomes the voice of Christ in Ich bin ein guter Hirt, (BWV85). All in all, another impressive installment in this highly acclaimed cycle.

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2010

None of these five cantatas extends beyond a quarter of an hour and yet the wealth of material is brilliantly compressed in a manner which followers of Bach's chorale cantata Jahrgang, his second cycle from Trinity 1724, would have come to expect. Before the following Easter, the composer had abandoned the cycle – at least partly, one imagines, as a result of some upset with the church authorities – and resumed with the conventional model where the music takes the gospel as catalyst for poetic inspiration.
Vol 39 from Masaaki Suzuki introduces us initially to the outstanding Whit Monday cantata, No 68, Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt ('God so loved the world') in a performance of uncharacteristically ruddy complexion by Collegium Bach Japan. The siciliana rhythm is elegantly turned here but lacks intensity. Likewise, the bubbling radiance of 'Mein gläubiges Herze' ('My heart ever faithful', as early English arrangers have known it) is short of the genial joie devivre which Agnes Giebel famously brings to Fritz Werner's performance (Erato).
If the texts of Marianne von Ziegler for Nos 68, 175 and 183 (sadly, she collaborated with Bach on only nine works) afford a special luminosity of imagery which Bach clearly found profoundly arresting, Suzuki is equally committed to Neumeister's effervescent representation of God's gifts of the past year in the Christmas Cantata Gottlob!, No 28. After Carolyn Sampson's authoritative opening aria, the great motet movement on the chorale, 'Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren', finds a happy balance between textural refinement and declamatory zeal.
These are, indeed, fine performances with notable contributions from all the soloists (and obbligato instruments – apart from some laboured violoncello piccolo playing in BWV183, albeit played on the shoulder, “da spalla”), though no single one falls into that special category where an association between work and performer is formed for instant recall.

September 2008

…fine performances with notable contributions from all the soloists…

The wonderfully trim and naturally expressive period band and choir, underpinned by an exceptional group of continuo players…. High-quality Bach singing and playing.

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