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Special offer. J. S. Bach: A Life in Music Vol. 1
RecommendedArnstadt & Mühlhausen (1703-1708), Early Cantatas
Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants, Benjamin Alard
With just one or two to a part, each musician is a leader here. The purity of the singers’ straight tones and the immediacy and depth of their individual reactions to lexical meaning are bracing,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th April 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Bach - Actus Tragicus
Katharine Fuge (soprano), Carlos Mena (counter-tenor), Jan Kobow (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot
The singers are wonderful, never over-acting, and managing to sound as though this marvellous work is being minted afresh for us on the spot...The recording is a beauty: warm and full with plenty... — More…
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Record Review, 17th October 2005, Recording of the Week
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 1
Yumiko Kurisu (soprano), Akira Tachikawa (counter-tenor), Koki Katano (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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JS Bach: Cantatas: The complete box-set
RecommendedRecorded live during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage (2000)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Dr Koopman's musical offering comes hard on the heels of that of John Eliot Gardiner, whose Bach Cantata Pilgrimage marked the Millennium with a complete set of the cantatas, now available on... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bach Cantatas Volume 25
Cantatas for the Fifth Sunday after Easter & Cantatas for the Sunday after Ascension Day
Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Steve Davislim & Stephan Loges, Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew & Panajotis Iconomou
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc. — More…
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Bach Cantatas: Recreation for the Soul
Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor, James Gilchrist
Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey
The four voices are fairly matched with each other, less so with their instrumental colleagues, and Harvey leads unfailingly elegant interpretations. At each turn, however, they yield to the... — More…
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Bach Cantatas Volume 23
Cantatas for the First and Second Sunday after Easter
Katharine Fuge, Gillian Keith, Daniel Taylor, William Towers, Charles Daniels, Norbert Meyn & Stephen Varcoe
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The seven cantatas here, nominally representing the works for the two Sundays after Easter, cover an unusual range from No 150 to the dazzling maturity of three pastoral cantatas from three... — More…
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Bach: A Cantata for Every Sunday, Vol. 97
Ruth Holton (soprano), Sytse Buwalda, Knut Schoch, Bas Ramselaar
Netherlands Bach Collegium, Holland Boys Choir, Pieter Jan Leusink
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Special offer. JS Bach: Sacred Cantatas BWV 150-153
Paul Esswood (counter-tenor vocals), Max van Egmond (bass vocals), Philippe Herreweghe (director), Sebastian Hennig (boy soprano), Thomas Hampson (bass vocals), Stefan Rampf (boy soprano), Kurt Equiluz (tenor vocals), Christoph Wegmann (boy soprano), Ansgar Pfeiffer (boy soprano), Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden...
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JS Bach: Sacred Cantatas Vol.8 - BWV 138-140, 143-159 & 161-162
Robert Holl (bass), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Paul Esswood (counter-tenor), Thomas Hampson (bass), Max van Egmond (bass)
Leonhardt-Consort, Concentus Musicus Wien, Tölz Boys' Choir, Hanover Boys' Choir, Collegium Vocale, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt
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