BACH AND BEYOND – LIMITED EDITION

 

MONTEVERDI: Vespers, Missa in illa tempore, Magnificat II a 6 voci

SCHÜTZ: Geistliche Chormusik, SWV 369-397; Die 7 Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz

AHLE: Selected Vocal Music

BUXTEHUDE: Membra Jesu nostri

KUHNAU: Magnificat

VIVALDI: Recorder Concertos

ZELENKA: Two Magnificats

J.S. BACH: Magnificat, Selected Choirs, Goldberg variations, Violin Concertos, Wedding & Coffee Cantatas

HÄNDEL: Messiah

C.P.E. BACH: Cello Concertos

 

Soloists include:

Carolyn Sampson (soprano),

Dan Laurin (recorder),

Ryo Terakado (violin)

Hidemi Suzuki (cello)

Choir and Orchestra of the Bach Collegium Japan  

Direction and harpsichord: Masaaki Suzuki

 

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. Apart from Bach himself, the composers represented in the set are illustrious forerunners such as Monteverdi and the German quartet of Schütz, Buxtehude, Ahle and Kuhnau, Bach's contemporaries Vivaldi, Handel and Zelenka, and finally his own son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel. Works included are from a wide range of genres, including vocal music as well as instrumental, secular as well as sacred, scores involving large forces as well as solo works. The members of the Bach Collegium Japan are joined in their music-making by a number of distinguished soloists, and there is also an opportunity to sample the harpsichord-playing of Masaaki Suzuki in his acclaimed recording of the Goldberg Variations. The eminently price-worthy set consists of eleven previously released titles, accompanied by the original booklets and full information. It also includes 'A Choral Year with J.S. Bach', a newly made compilation of Masaaki Suzuki's personal selection from famous movements in Bach's cantatas, ordered according to the Lutheran Church Calendar from Advent to Reformation Day

 

BIS 15cds BISCD9036-39