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Suzuki Bach Cantatas

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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  • Bach - Motets

    Bach - Motets

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    Yukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 1st Mar 2010
    • Catalogue No: BISSACD1841
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 75 minutes

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  • Bach - Cantatas Volume 30

    Bach - Cantatas Volume 30

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    Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    Solo soprano and trumpet… have long made Bach's cantata 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen' a favourite with audiences. …this new performance with Carolyn Sampson and trumpeter Toshio Shimada is... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 27th Feb 2006
    • Catalogue No: BISSACD1471
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 73 minutes

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  • Bach - Cantatas Volume 34

    Bach - Cantatas Volume 34

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    Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    On March 25, 1725, Bach celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation and Palm Sunday with a special cantata, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern ('How beautifully shines the morning star'), a work... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
    • Release Date: 26th Feb 2007
    • Catalogue No: BISSACD1551
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 59 minutes

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  • Bach - Cantatas Volume 55

    Bach - Cantatas Volume 55

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

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    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.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 4th Nov 2013
    • Catalogue No: BIS2031
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 68 minutes

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  • Bach - Cantatas Volume 33

    Bach - Cantatas Volume 33

    Yukari Nonoshita (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Jan Kobow (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    Yet again a fine achievement, striking the right balance between deep contemplation and freshness of approach — International Record Review More…
    • Release Date: 24th Nov 2006
    • Catalogue No: BISSACD1541
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 74 minutes

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  • Bach - Cantatas Sampler

    Bach - Cantatas Sampler

    Yoshikazu Mera (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor), Hana Blažíková (soprano), Peter Kooij (bass), Miah Persson (soprano), Yukari Nonoshita (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto), Dominik Wörner (bass), Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    • Catalogue No: BIS9051
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 76 minutes

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  • Bach - Cantatas Volume 40

    Bach - Cantatas Volume 40

    Yukari Nonoshita (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    …Suzuki's instrumentalists are fast becoming the stars of the series, their obligato playing often in danger of eclipsing the singers whose arias they gild so tellingly. …Robin Blaze exudes... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 1st Sep 2008
    • Catalogue No: BISSACD1671
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 57 minutes

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  • Bach - Cantatas Volume 39

    Bach - Cantatas Volume 39

    Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass) & Dmitry Badiarov (violoncello da spalla)

    Bach Collegium Japan & Concerto Palatino, Masaaki Suzuki

    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 - Secular Cantatas I

    Bach - Secular Cantatas I

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    Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass)

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    • Release Date: 1st Nov 2004
    • Catalogue No: BISCD1411
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 62 minutes

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  • JS Bach: The Complete Secular Cantatas

    Special offer. JS Bach: The Complete Secular Cantatas

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    Limited edition box set of the acclaimed recordings by Bach Collegium Japan

    Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

    • Release Date: 1st Nov 2019
    • Catalogue No: BIS2491
    • Label: BIS
    • Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
    • Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

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    10 SACDs

    Original price ($82.00) Reduced price $65.60

    Format: Hybrid Multi-channel

    This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

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