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Bach: 53 Cantatas [Vols 41 - 55 from the complete cycle] Hana Blaziková, Damien Guillon, Gerd Türk, Carolyn Sampson, Satoshi Mizukoshi & Peter Kooij / Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / 15 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2014 ] BIS is delighted to present a specially priced boxed sets featuring volumes 41-55 of the acclaimed Bach Cantatas series with the Bach Collegium Japan and their director Masaaki Suzuki.LIMITED EDITION!! 15 CDs for the price of 5 |
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Adolescent Sex (Repackage) [ Arista / CD - released 11/Sep/2006 ] |
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Cantatas (Vol 44) BWV43, BWV88, BWV146 Rachel Nicholls (soprano) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Gerd Turk (tenor) / Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki (conductor) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] The two cantatas BWV 146 and 43 were composed for Jubilate Sunday and for Ascension Day respectively, both of them joyous occasions celebrating Christ's resurrection and subsequent ascension into heaven. |
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Bach & Beyond: A set of original BIS CDs [15 CDs Special Price] Dan Laurin, Hidemi Suzuki, Midori Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / 15 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Widely regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of Bach's music today, Masaaki Suzuki has made his name both as the artistic director of the Bach Collegium Japan and as a performer on the harpsichord and the organ. |
Suzuki/Bach Collegium Japan
Bach: Cantatas Nos.21/31 [ Bis / CD ] |
Kooij/Bach Collegium Japan
Bach: Cantatas Vol.20 [ Bis / CD - released 6/Jan/2003 ] |
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Christmas Oratorio BWV248 Monika Frimmer (soprano), Yoshikazu Mera (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "The six cantatas that make up Bach's ChristmasOratorio are part of a unified work celebrating not just Christmas itself but also the New Year and Epiphany. Masaaki Suzuki faces plentiful if not invariably stiff competition in this work. In fact, it... |
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Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord, Vol. 2 Masato Suzuki (harpsichord & direction), Bach Collegium Japan [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] The concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo harpsichord and strings are some of the earliest, if not the very first, keyboard concertos. In all likelihood Bach wrote them for his own use (or that of his talented sons) - probably to be performed... |
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Bach For Japan Bach Collegium Japan chorus & orchestra, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] In support of TOHOKU HELP, aiding the victims of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. This compilation has been produced by Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki as part of their ongoing work to support the victims of the earthquake and... |
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Bach: German Organ Mass [ Bis / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] |
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Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 1 Masato Suzuki (harpsichord & direction) / Bach Collegium Japan [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Many of Bach's harpsichord concertos are almost certainly transcriptions of earlier works written for other instruments. |
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Cantatas (Vol 15) (Nos 40, 60, 70 & 90) Robin Blaze, Yukari Nonoshita / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2001 ] Masaaki Suzuki's Bach series continues |
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Matthew White, counter-tenor; Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooij, bass; Bach Collegium Japan directed by Masaaki Suzuki
Bach, J.S. - Cantatas Vol. 23 (Nos 10, 93, 107 & 178) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2003 ] "These are magnificent performances, displaying exceptional unanimity of purpose and effortless solo singing which is at once self-effacing and powerfully involving. Highly recommended." - Highly recommended International Record Review (May 2004) |
Yukari Nonoshita, soprano; Timothy Kenworthy-Brown, counter-tenor; Makoto Sakurada, tenor; Peter Kooij, bass. Bach Collegium Japan directed by Masaaki
Bach, J.S. - Cantatas Vol. 26 (BWV 96, BWV 122, BWV180) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2004 ] The 26th Volume of Bach Cantatas with Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan consists of three works composed for performances during the last three months of 1742. |
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Cantatas (Vol 6) Nos 21 & 31 Monika Frimmer (soprano) Gerd Tark (tenor) / Collegium Japan, Suzuki [ BIS / CD - released 21/May/2001 ] Masaaki Suzuki and his now famous Bach Collegium Japan continue |
Midori Suzuki, sop; Yoshikazu Mera, counter-tenor, Collegium Japan, Suzuki
Bach J.S. - Cantatas (Vol 8) Nos 22, 23 & 75 [ BIS / CD - released 21/May/2001 ] Masaaki Suzuki and his now famous Bach Collegium Japan continue |
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Secular Cantatas Vol III [BWV 173a, 202 "Wedding", 36c, 524] Joanne Lunn (soprano), Hiroya Aoki (counter-tenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Although two of the works on this disc were composed for weddings, they are completely different in character. Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten is a charming and gracious garland of recitatives and arias for soprano solo in which Spring, Flora, Apollo... |
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Bach: Musikalisches Opfer Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord), Members of the Bach Collegium Japan [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] Johann Sebastian Bach's appearance on 7th May 1747 at the court of Frederick the Great is the best documented event in the composer's otherwise unglamorous career. During the proceedings, Frederick provided Bach with an exceptionally difficult theme... |
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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 [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/May/2017 ] "This is a superb issue in a superb series." MusicWeb December 2017 |
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Bach: Secular Cantatas Vol VI [BWV212 'Peasant', BWV209 & BWV203] Monica Erdmann, Dominik Worner / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "The director's own keyboard playing adds to the intimate and rolling spontaneity, surely Bach's most tantalising example of what opera might have afforded him" Gramophone |