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... —
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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 - 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.... —
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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 - Secular Cantatas VIII
Celebratory Cantatas
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Hiroya Aoki (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor) & Roderick Williams (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Both the gentleness and ecstatic immediacy of Bach’s rich imagery become apparent at the outset and each movement is performed at a compellingly high level. The liquid and brilliantly projected... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 31
Yukari Nonoshita (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan & Concerto Palatino, Masaaki Suzuki
…there are many fine solo contributions, from among which I would single out the sensitive partnership of Yukari Nonoshita and Robin Blaze in the vocally imitative duet of BWV 91. Gerd Türk... —
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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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Bach - Cantatas Volume 52
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
[BWV112] is well worth exploring, especially for Robin Blaze's liquid countertenor...Hana Blazikova and Peter Kooij's first duetto might sound distinctly lacking in impatience for the coming... —
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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... —
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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... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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 —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Disc of the month
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