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.
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Bach - Motets
RecommendedYukari 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... — More…
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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
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 47
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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BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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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... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 34
RecommendedCarolyn 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... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bach - Secular Cantatas I
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommended Recording
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 55
RecommendedHana 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.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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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 — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Disc of the month
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 29
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Pascal Bertin counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
…Masaaki Suzuki brings… a textural clarity and a lightness of tread which makes more sense of Bach's often strongly chromatic music than any rival recording that I can recall. Singing and playing... — More…
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Bach - Secular Cantatas IV
RecommendedJoanne Lunn (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Wolfram Lattke (tenor) & Roderick Williams (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan's trumpets and horns mount a thrilling assault to play without modern drilled holes to fix their intonation to the expectations of modern ears...The outstanding moment is... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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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
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