Bach Collegium Japan
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Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Christian Immler (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Stripping the score right back, Suzuki makes musicianship dominate. He taps into the subtle arts of his fellow performers, especially Carolyn Sampson, to create a benchmark performance…Sampson... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Choral
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Building a Library, September 2020, Recommended Recording
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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... —
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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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JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
RecommendedBenjamin Bruns (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Clint van der Linde (baritone), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Christian Immler (baritone), Toru Kaku (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
It’s fascinating how much his two recordings have in common…what principally differentiates the two sets are the solo singers…Benjamin Bruns’s Evangelist and Christian Immler’s Christus are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
RecommendedAnn-Helen Moen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Allan Clayton (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
This marvelous performance is reproduced in superb, lifelike sound, full of impact but without any sense of artificial enhancement. Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have given us... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 'Lobgesang'
Jone Martínez, Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Eri Sawae, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
RecommendedAnn-Helen Moen (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Benjamin Bevan (baritone)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The orchestra and chorus are comparatively small under Suzuki, the tempos slightly on the fast side, the soloists able to cope with the appalling difficulties of their music, but not outstandingly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th March 2018
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Record Review, 31st March 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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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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J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245
James Gilchrist (tenor), Christian Immler (bass), Damien Guillon (alto), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Yusuke Watanabe (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Suzuki directs a performance of dramatic urgency and probing vision. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 10th October 2020, Record of the Week
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Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Jochen Kupfer (baritone), Miku Yasukawa, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The choir are at the heart of the work in this recording, their well-drilled German consonants pinging percussively off the walls of Tokyo’s Opera City Concert Hall. —
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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.... —
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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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