Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles
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Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles, Masaaki Suzuki (early keyboard instruments)
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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, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano I), Rachel Nicholls (soprano II), Robin Blaze (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The choir is small enough, two/three to a part, to project great clarity and detail - 'Osanna' is delightfully exuberant - though elsewhere Suzuki's tempos are rather deliberate… — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th October 2007
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Masaaki Suzuki plays Buxtehude Masaaki Suzuki (playing the Klapmeyer Organ of St Nicolai Church, Altenbruch)
on the Wilde-Schnitger Organ of St Jacobi Church, Lüdingworth
Suzuki strikes a perfect accord between an expressively singing solo line and its fastidiously-shaped accompaniment. — More…
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 30 RecommendedCarolyn 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... — 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 - 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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If, as is often said, Bach saw fugue as simply the most natural medium for composing beautiful music, Suzuki demonstrates that it is also good for the exciting, the playful, the sombre, and... — More…
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 54 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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Bach - Secular Cantatas VI RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan produce a delectable vision in quasi-Passion clothes…the choruses captivatingly detailed, luminous and with just enough galant accentuation…Suzuki delivers a captivating... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 2 RecommendedMidori Suzuki (soprano), Aki Yanagisawa (soprano), Yoshikazu Mera (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor/bass), Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Here these artists are abreast of current thinking concerning Baroque style, yet sometimes you find yourself longing for a little more expression and a little less fashionable orthodoxy. The... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2001, Choral Recommendation
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