JS Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 2

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An interesting and unexpected programme. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017 More…

Release Date: 3rd Mar 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2241
Label: BIS
Length: 70 minutes

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Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in G major, BWV541

Work length5:01

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Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel

Prelude

Track length2:18

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Fugue

Track length2:43

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV730 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier'

Work length2:54

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Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel

Bach, J S: Organ Concerto in D minor (after Vivaldi), BWV596

Work length12:04

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Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel

I. (Allegro) - II. Grave - III. Fugue

Track length4:26

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IV. Largo e spiccato

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V. (Allegro)

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Bach, J S: Partita on Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768

Work length20:22

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Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel

Choral

Track length3:07

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Var. 1

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Var. 2

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Var. 3

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Var. 4

Track length0:37

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Var. 5

Track length0:42

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Var. 6

Track length1:06

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Var. 7

Track length1:44

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Var. 8

Track length1:19

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Var. 9

Track length1:03

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Var. 10

Track length1:08

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Var. 11

Track length4:21

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Bach, J S: Organ Concerto in C Major, BWV 594

Work length11:12

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Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel

I. Allegro

Track length1:49

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II. Recitativo (Adagio)

Track length6:27

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III. Allegro

Track length2:56

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Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV731 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier'

Work length8:25

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Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV547

Work length10:39

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Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel

Prelude

Track length5:10

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Fugue

Track length5:29

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Before releasing his first disc of Bach’s organ works, Masaaki Suzuki had recorded the composer’s complete sacred cantatas, as well as the large-scale choral works and much of the music for harpsichord. His achievements in these fields obscured the fact that Suzuki originally trained as an organist, and began working as such already at the age of twelve. So when Volume 1 of this series reached reviewers around the world, it was something of a revelation to many: the disc went on to be named Choice of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, Diapason d’Or in Diapason and Recording of the Month in Gramophone, which then went on to include it on its list of the ‘50 Greatest Bach Recordings’.

Volume 1 featured the celebrated Schnitger/Hinz organ of Groningen’s Martinikerk in the Netherlands. For the present instalment, Suzuki returned to more familiar ground – the chapel of the Kobe Shoin Women's University where the great majority of his recordings with Bach Collegium Japan have taken place. The chapel houses a French classical organ built in 1983 by Marc Garnier, and on it Suzuki performs a highly symmetrical programme with the large-scale chorale partita BWV 768 at its centre. The work is known as ‘Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig’, although the chorale text that it is structured upon most probably is that of ‘O Jesu, du edle Gabe’. On either side the partita is flanked by an arrangement by Bach of concertos by Vivaldi, and a chorale prelude on ‘Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier’. The disc opens and closes with a Prelude and Fugue, in G major and C major respectively.

Reviews

October 2017

An interesting and unexpected programme.

May 2017

this second Bach recoding shows his fine musicianship…a splendidly balanced and varied disc…

May 2017

Performances of deep-seated understanding, colour and vitality

4th May 2017

Another fine Bach recital from Suzuki.

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