Bach - Cantatas Volume 42
Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
…a programme demonstrating Bach's astonishing variety and imagination in musical structures, instrumental tone-colours and response to texts. BWV 72, for instance, opens with spine-tingling...
Bach - Cantatas Volume 42
Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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…a programme demonstrating Bach's astonishing variety and imagination in musical structures, instrumental tone-colours and response to texts. BWV 72, for instance, opens with spine-tingling...
About
The present volume in the cantata cycle of the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki consists of four works all written for performances in January 1726. Among these is the New Year’s cantata Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV16 (Lord God, we praise you).
Contents and tracklist
Work length15:25
- Rachel Nicholls, Robin Blaze, Peter Kooij
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
Alles nur nach Gottes Willen (Chorus)
Track length3:24
Recitative. O selger Christ (Alto)
Track length2:02
Aria. Mit allem, was ich hab und bin (Alto)
Track length4:08
Recitative. So glaube nun! (Bass)
Track length0:59
Aria. Mein Jesus will es tun (Soprano)
Track length3:29
Chorale. Was mein Gott will, das gescheh allzeit (Chorus)
Track length1:23
Work length23:02
- Rachel Nicholls, Peter Kooij
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
Aria. Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Soprano)
Track length6:47
Recitative. Was ist's, dass du mich gesuchet? (Bass)
Track length0:26
Aria. Hier, in meines Vaters Statte (Bass)
Track length6:34
Recitative. Ach! Heiliger und grosser Gott (Soprano, Bass)
Track length2:23
Aria. Nun verschwinden alle Plagen (Soprano, Bass)
Track length5:34
Chorale. Mein Gott, offne mir die Pforten (Chorus)
Track length1:18
Work length20:28
- Gerd Türk, Rachel Nicholls, Robin Blaze, Peter Kooij
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
Aria. Meine Seufzer, meine Tranen (Tenor)
Track length7:44
Recitative. Mein liebster Gott lasst mich annoch (Alto)
Track length1:04
Chorale. Der Gott, der mir hat versprochen (Alto)
Track length2:39
Recitative. Mein Kummer nimmet zu (Soprano)
Track length1:18
Aria. Achzen und erbarmlich Weinen (Bass)
Track length6:44
Chorale; so sei nun, Seele
Track length0:59
Work length16:22
- Robin Blaze, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij
- Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Recorded: February 2008
- Recording Venue: Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel, Japan
Herr Gott, dich loben wir (Chorus)
Track length1:47
Recitative. So stimmen wir bei dieser frohen Zeit (Bass)
Track length1:17
Aria. Lasst uns jauchzen, lasst uns freuen (Bass, Chorus)
Track length3:46
Recitative. Ach treuer Hort (Alto)
Track length1:20
Aria. Geliebter Jesu, du allein (Tenor)
Track length6:43
Chorale. All solch dein Gut wir preisen (Chorus)
Track length1:29
Awards and reviews
September 2009
…a programme demonstrating Bach's astonishing variety and imagination in musical structures, instrumental tone-colours and response to texts. BWV 72, for instance, opens with spine-tingling energy, instruments and voices in floridly elaborated lines over a slow, powerful harmonic foundation. It's followed by two violins and continuo weaving their trio sonata texture around Robin Blaze's alluring countertenor, while remaining wholly independent of him melodically.
July 2009
If the reflective and beautifully nuanced opening of Liebster Jesu is an example of Suzuki's genuinely deeply felt identification with this music…
a recording which shows Suzuki maturing along with Bach … another fine instalment in this most consistent of series
