Bach, J S - Motet BWV118 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht'
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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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Special offer. JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 45 & 198 & Motet 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht'
RecommendedDorothee Mields (soprano), Alex Potter (counter-tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Collegium Vocale Gent. Philippe Herreweghe
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, is tailor-made for Herreweghe. No one else peels back those tactile homogeneous phrases with quite such luminosity and deep-seated finesse as Collegium Vocale. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Choral
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The opening of Komm, Jesu, komm entices. The antiphonal pleas are so lovingly shaped and delectably blended it’s impossible not to surrender. But does beauty of sound and ‘finish’ become an... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Choral
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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A Bach Album
His Majestys Consort of Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Timothy Roberts (director/organ)
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Special offer. Bach: Motets BWV 225-230, Cantatas BWV 50 & 118
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Bach - Cantatas
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Anthony Rolfe (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Players, John Eliot Gardiner
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With Heart and Voice
Concordia University Wind Symphony, Concordia University Kapelle, Concordia Orchestra, Richard Fischer, Charles Brown
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J.S. Bach: Complete Motets, BWV 118 & 225-230
Trinity Wall Street Choir, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Julian Wachner
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Special offer. Bach - Cantatas
Agnes Giebel, Sheila Armstrong, Rotraus Hansmann (sopranos), Julia Falk, Helen Watts (altos), Bert van t’Hoff, Kurt Equiluz (tenors) & Jacques Villisech, Max van Egmond (basses)
Monteverdi Choir Hamburg, Jürgen Jürgens
Patches of engaging music-making here, though giving more insight into 1960s Hamburg than 1720s Leipzig. Choruses are often woolly, soloists vary from off-the-voice big voices to insecure,... —
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Special offer. Bach: Motets, BWV 225 - 231, Cantatas, BWV 50 & 118
Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Neil McKenzie (tenor), Richard Savage (bass), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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