JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

 

Cantatas, Vol.29

 

Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV135

Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV2

Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV3

Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV38

 

Dorothee Mields (soprano), Pascal Bertin (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass)

Bach Collegium Japan/ Masaaki Suzuki

 

“The vitality is unsullied: I’ve never heard the opening movement of Ach wie flüchtig rush through its semi-quavers with this amount of drive.” The Times on Vol. 28 (BISSACD1451)

 

Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan return with the 29th volume in their ever popular Bach Cantatas series.

 

All of the works on the present disc use the addition of cornetto and/or trombones, resulting – in particular in BWV2 and BWV38 – in a sonic world both dramatic and archaic, even for Bach's own time. On this recording it is Concerto Palatino, the world's leading ensemble of their kind, which provides the inimitable timbres of cornettos and baroque trombones

 

Among the soloists, Gerd Türk and Peter Kooij will be familiar to followers of this series and Pascal Bertin has also appeared before, while the young German soprano Dorothee Mields makes her first appearance on BIS.

 

BISSACD1461