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Suzuki Bach Cantatas

Started in 1995 Suzuki's series with the Bach Collegium Japan is maintaining a remarkable consistency of sheer quality. These performances radiate freshness, and their vitality is matched by a wonderfully present recorded sound which, in the later volumes, with the addition of the surround effect of SACD, is very realistic indeed. It gives impression that one is in the auditorium where the performances are taking place.

With Carolyn Sampson and Yukari Nonoshita among others joining the soloists in recent volumes, the quality of the solo singing, and indeed the instrumental obbligati, seem unsurpassable.

Suzuki uses a higher pitch (A=465) with its brighter sound, and also favours female voices. The strings are clean yet have bloom, and there is no sense of inhibition.

"Although the excellence of rival surveys is not in doubt, this Japanese survey is the strongest and most consistent, and the BIS recordings are altogether exemplary" - Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music, 2008.

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  • Hana Blažíková (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    Suzuki balances detail sensitively, helped by the SACD sound...Hana Blažíková duets exuberantly with trumpet in her aria...this is a superb disc, Suzuki at one with Bach - and both at their best. More…

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  • Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    Suzuki's performance forces, 12-voice choir (including soloists) and three-to-a-part violins, are superbly clean and tidy while allowing him a generous dynamic and dramatic range. Highly commended. More…

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  • Hana Blažíkova (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    The trio texture of two oboes d'amore and bass opening the soprano aria of BWV 19 is exquisite, their tone excellently matched by Hana Blažíkova as she enters to expand the texture to a quartet..... More…

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  • Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    striking testimony to fine SACD engineering as well as the performers: this clarity and springiness is a vital component...the opening of BWV120, a tight-rope of alto demi-semi-quavers on which... More…

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  • Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    Suzuki's [Bach series] was initially rather restrained and reverential. No longer...the generous acoustic of the Chapel, reverberating for nearly four seconds, doesn't dull the crisp articulation...another... More…

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  • Solo Cantatas

    Carolyn Sampson (soprano) & Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord and conductor)

    With singers on the top of their form, this disc is utterly absorbing from start to finish. 'Ich habe Genug', BWV82… is here in Bach's alternative for soprano, with flute replacing oboe. What... More…

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