Special offer. Bach - Cantatas Volume 55
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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....
Special offer. Bach - Cantatas Volume 55
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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....
About
18 years and 55 discs later, a great adventure is brought to a close. The chronological approach adopted by Suzuki means that the three works included here are the last extant cantatas by Bach’s hand.
This series has been a landmark recording project for BIS and is released to coincide with the label's 40th anniversary.
Throughout the series, individual volumes have regularly picked up ‘choice’ awards from the major music magazines as well as numerous appearances in the UK classical chart.
Contents and tracklist
- Hana Blažiková, Robin Blaze, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij
- Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2013
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
- Peter Kooij, Robin Blaze
- Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2013
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
- Peter Kooij, Hana Blažiková, Gerd Türk
- Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2013
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
- Hana Blažiková, Gerd Türk
- Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2013
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
Spotlight on this release
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Bach Cantatas from Masaaki Suzuki
11th Nov 2013
Begun in 1995, Bach Collegium Japan’s mighty survey of the complete sacred cantatas crosses the finishing-line with these affecting performances of Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, Freue dich, erlöste Schar, and Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week11th November 2013
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Gramophone MagazineDecember 2013Editor's Choice
December 2013
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. The final Cantata of this complete series is uncannily apt: 'Gloria in Excelsis' indeed!
December 2013
This final volume highlights the maturing sense..of Bach Collegium Japan's growing stature and confidence to break free of generic convention towards even greater interpretative character...The best is as good as anyone anywhere
8th November 2013
All the qualities that have made this one of the most important series of the past two decades are here, as they have been in the previous 54 volumes...[Gloria in excelsis Deo's] positioning as the final work on the final disc is apposite: the concluding chorus is a splendidly grand one to celebrate the culmination of this endeavour.
11th November 2013
Masaaki and his performers seem to live and breathe this music and there is so much joy and immediacy in their music-making...It is simply outstanding playing, virtually faultless, and threatening on occasion to eclipse the singers, who are equally hard to fault!
