J. S. BACH
Bach: Overtures (Four Orchestral Suites) Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] "These performances are magnificent, and offering two SACDs for the price of one makes them a good deal too. Suzuki does more than just play the music very well: he evokes its purpose, social milieu, and lavishness of content in such a way that... |
J.S. BACH
Six Brandenburg Concertos / Four Orchestral Suites Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "First-class engineering and generous timings (nearly 70 minutes per disc) make this set a prime recommendation if you are looking for this repertoire on period instruments. Outstanding in every way." (10/10 ClassicsToday.com) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) / Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Feb/2018 ] "All performers are in superb form and recorded with pristine clarity and balance. This is a must-listen - a different Beethoven comes forth with sublime beauty and insights beyond the symphony." (Nicholas Butler) |
J. S. BACH / MARCO GIOSEPPE PERANDA
Lutheran Masses Volume 2 Hana Blažiková, Joanne Lun, Aki Matsui, Peter Kooij, Robin Blaze, Dominik Wörner / Bach Collegium Japan, Maasaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2015 ] The two Lutheran Masses recorded here make extensive use of earlier compositions by Bach and include reworkings of arias and choruses from cantatas, but each of the four masses also has its own unmistakable artistic profile |
J. S. BACH
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... |
Bach Collegium Munchen/Albrech
Poulenc: Concertos For Keyboar [ Oehms Classics / Hybrid SACD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
Bach C.P.E.
Keyboard Sonatas [ Naxos / CD ] |
Bach J.S.
Keybord Favourites [ Naxos / CD ] |
Bach, J.S./Raffaele Trevisani
Trio Sonatas [ Delos / CD - released 13/Jul/2009 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Best of the Bach Musica Bach Musica, New Zealand / Rita Paczian (cond) [ Bach Musica / CD - released 20/Jul/2007 ] Highlights from the 2005 and 2006 concert seasons |
J. S. BACH
Bass Arias from the cantatas Various bass soloists / Bach-Collegium Stuttgart / Helmuth Rilling [ Hanssler / CD - released 11/Aug/2008 ] This disc features a program of arias for bass voice from the Baroque's most important figure J S Bach. The album is drawn from the international award winning Complete Bach Edition recorded under the direction of Helmuth Rilling. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St. Matthew Passion (complete) Edith Mathis, Janet Baker, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set ] |
W.A. MOZART
Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K. 216 / Rondo in C major, K. 373 (with Johann Michael Haydn-Violin Concerto) Baiba Skride (violin) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra / Hartmut Haenchen [ Sony Classical / CD - released 28/Oct/2007 ] "I'm a spontanteous person and if you've got to do the same thing ten times in a row and keep your concentration while you're at it..." (Baiba Skride) |
BOB CHILCOTT
The Angry Planet BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, The Young Singers, London Youth Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, David Hill [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott's status as one of the world's most popular active choral composers. The BBC recently gave Chilcott a [sell-out] concert from BBC Maida Vale, on 5th June, to celebrate BBC Music Day... |
J. S. BACH
Mass in B Minor Bethany Seymour / Sally Bruce-Payne / Jason Darnell / Joshua Ellicott / Peter Harvey / Yorkshire Bach Choir Yorkshire Baroque Soloists / Peter Seymour [ Signum / 2 CD - released 8/Sep/2011 ] "There are some stellar recordings of Bach's great Mass around, but this spirited performance from Peter Seymour's York-based forces shouldn't sink with trace. Plus points: warm-toned, well sustained choral singing; meticulously articulated... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Semiramide (complete opera) Alex Penda, Marianna Pizzolato, Lorenzo Regazzo, Andrea Mastroni / Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Virtuosi Brunensis, Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "this new Semiramide rivals Pesaro standards thanks to Fogliani's ever-alert and lively conducting. His cast includes singers who challenge this long and wonderful opera's most famous interpreters on disc...this is an unmissable bargain." (Sunday Ti |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Le Siege De Corinthe (complete opera) Lorenzo Regazzo, Majella Cullagh / Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań & Virtuosi Brunensis, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Rossini adapted his own Italian opera of 1820, Maometto, for the Parisian stage under the title of Le Siège de Corinthe. As Rossini's original work had already absorbed distinctive French characteristics such as heroic arias, and characterisation... |
STEFANO PAVESI
Ser Marcantonio (complete opera) Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań & Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Massimo Spadano [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Highly enjoyable in its own right, this comic opera also has historic significance to recommend it, serving as it does as a model for both Rossini and Donizetti in his Don Pasquale both musically and in the links formed by librettist Angelo Anelli. |
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |