Bach - Motets
Yukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Awards:
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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
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...
Bach - Motets
Yukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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Awards:
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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
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...
About
In view of the fact that several of the works are composed for double choir, the usual 16-member choir from the cantata recordings have been slightly expanded to 18 singers, of which some also appear as soloists. Included on the disc are the six motets BWV 225-231, as well as BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht and BWV Anh. 159 Ich lasse dich nicht.
Contents and tracklist
Bach, J S:
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Work length4:30
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Work length7:38
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Wie sich ein Vater erbarmet - Gott, nimm dich ferner unser an (Live)
Track length4:01
Lobet den Herrn in seinen Taten (Live)
Track length3:37
Work length8:25
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Komm, Jesu, komm
Track length7:00
Drum schliess ich mich in deine Hande
Track length1:25
Bach, J S:
Jesu, meine Freude
Work length1:08
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Work length18:52
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Es ist nun nichts Verdammliches an denen
Track length2:29
Unter deinen Schirmen
Track length1:02
Denn das Gesetz des Geistes
Track length00:56
Trotz dem alten Drachen
Track length2:10
Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich
Track length3:17
Weg mit allen Schatzen
Track length00:57
So aber Christus in euch ist
Track length1:51
Gute Nacht, o Wesen
Track length3:37
So nun der Geist
Track length1:16
Weicht, ihr Trauergeister
Track length1:17
Work length6:05
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Work length7:27
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228
Track length7:27
Work length4:09
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Bach, J S:
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
Work length3:32
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Work length3:42
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Der aber die Herzen forschet
Track length2:11
Du heilige Brunst, susser Trost
Track length1:31
Work length9:51
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
Spotlight on this release
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JS Bach Choral & Vocal Works
20th Feb 2015
This week it's David's turn to attempt the impossible - whittling down the huge and distinguished choral discography of JS Bach and picking out the very best.
Awards and reviews
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Presto FavouritesRecommended Recording
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année2010Winner - Musique Chorale
June 2010
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 is discreet but colourful...The recording makes its distinctive mark among many competitors.
July 2010
The performances are splendid. After its solemn beginning, 'Komm, Jesu, komm' is light, almost flirtatious in places...In 'Jesu, meine Freude', Suzuki finds a perfect balance between drama and lyricism, and 'Singet dem Herrn' is full of rhythmic vitality. Recommended with all possibile enthusiasm.
2011
This is one of [Harnoncourt's] best CDs and, beautifully recorded, it is still worth exploring...The familiar motets are memorable too, the opening Singet dem Herrn particularly fresh, and Jesu, meine Freude strikingly beautiful.
The six large-scale motets BWV225-230 are among the finest choral compositions of the Baroque era, and show Bach's vocal writing at its most colourful and varied. In this recording Masaaki Suzuki leads a slightly expanded Bach Collegium Japan, encompassing a huge range of expressive shades from solemnity in Jesu, meine Freude to light-heartedness at some points in Komm, Jesu, komm.
