Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 13 (2000)

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Artist: Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Title: J.S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 13
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: BIS
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:10:51
Total Size: 336 Mb
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Tracklist:

Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64 17'10
01 I. Chorus - Sehet, welch eine Liebe... 2'37
02 II. Chorale - Das hat er alles uns getan… 0'41
03 III. Recitative (alto) - Geh, Welt! behalte nur das Deine... 0'38
04 IV. Chorale - Was frag ich nach der Welt… 0'47
05 V. Aria (soprano) - Was die Welt in sich hält… 4'48
06 VI. Recitative (bass) - Der Himmel bleibet mir gewiss... 1'07
07 VII. Aria (alto) - Von der Welt verlang ich nichts... 5'22
08 VIII. Chorale - Gute Nacht, o Wesen… 1'10
Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe, BWV 25 15'16
09 I. Chorus - Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe... 5'36
10 II. Recitative (tenor) - Die ganze Welt ist nur ein Hospital... 1'43
11 III. Aria (tenor) - Ach, wo hol ich Armer Rat?… 2'51
12 IV. Recitative (soprano) - O Jesu, lieber Meister… 1'10
13 V. Aria (soprano) - Öffne meinen schlechten Liedern... 2'50
14 VI. Chorale - Ich will alle meine Tage… 1'06
Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a 17'44
15 I. Chorus - Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele… 5'24
16 II. Recitative (soprano) - Ach, dass ich tausend Zungen hätte!... 0'52
17 III. Aria (tenor) - Meine Seele, auf, erzähle… 5'59
18 IV. Recitative (alto) - Gedenk ich nur zurück… 1'34
19 V. Aria (bass) - Mein Erlöser und Erhalter… 3'05
20 VI. Chorale - Was Gott tut, das ist wohl getan… 0'50
Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben, BWV 77 14'41
21 I. Chorus - Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben… 3'36
22 II. Recitative (bass) - So muss er sein… 0'38
23 III. Aria (soprano) - Mein Gott, ich liebe dich von Herzen... 3'52
24 IV. Recitative (tenor) - Gib mir dabei, mein Gott!... 1'08
25 V. Aria (alto) - Ach, er bleibt in meiner Liebe… 4'20
26 VI. Chorale - Herr, durch den Glauben wohn in mir… 1'07
Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50 (Fragment)
27 Chorus - Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft… 3'32

Performers:
Robin Blaze
Yoshie Hida
Peter Kooij
Yukari Nonoshita
Makoto Sakurada
Kirsten Sollek-Avella
Gerd Türk
Bach Collegium Japan
Concerto Palatino
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

Bach Collegium Japan’s stimulating survey of the composer’s sacred cantatas continues with a 13th volume. It contains three works which Bach performed during the Trinity season of his first year at Leipzig (1723), another, BWV 64, which was first heard during the Christmas festival of the same year, and the presumably fragmentary chorus in eight vocal parts with brass, timpani, woodwind and strings, ‘Nun ist das Heil’ (BWV 50). This release is well up to the high standards of past issues. Among the many enjoyable features of the performances are the fresh-sounding upper strands of the 16-voice choir, the sensitive and mainly secure instrumental playing and the excellence of the soloists. Perhaps the choral tenors and basses occasionally lack clarity – I felt this in the darkly coloured opening movement of BWV 25 – but they spring to life both in the mighty torso of the Michaelmas ‘Nun ist das Heil’ and in the splendid double-fugal chorus which provides the focal point of BWV 69a. It is perhaps worth noting that the solo alto line in this volume of the series, at least, is shared between a countertenor (BWV 64) and a female alto. Countertenors, however accomplished, do not always provide convincing results in Bach’s music, and a woman’s voice of a boyish character, such as that heard here, can offer greater expressive satisfaction. Recorded sound is clear and vivid, but the bass aria of BWV 25 is wrongly attributed, both on the box and in the booklet, to a tenor. Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5) -- Nicholas Anderson

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