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Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 38 (2008) Hi-Res

Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 38 (2008) Hi-Res
  • Title: J.S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 38
  • Year Of Release: 2008
  • Label: BIS
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC 24bit-44.1kHz / FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:05:49
  • Total Size: 699 Mb / 342 Mb
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Tracklist:

Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
1. Sinfonia 04:14
2. Recitative. Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht! (Soprano) 01:02
3. Aria. Immerhin, immerhin, wenn ich gleich verstossen bin! (Soprano) 03:26
4. Recitative. Gott ist getreu! (Soprano) 01:13
5. Aria. Ich halt es mit dem lieben Gott (Soprano) 03:31
6. Chorale. In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr (Chorus) 01:01
Cantata, BWV 82 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
7. Aria. Ich habe genug (Bass) 06:54
8. Recitative. Ich habe genug (Bass) 01:08
9. Aria. Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen (Bass) 09:55
10. Recitative. Mein Gott! Wenn kommt das schone: Nun (Bass) 00:50
11. Aria. Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod (Bass) 03:39
Ich armer Mensch, ich Sundenknecht, BWV 55 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
12. Aria. Ich armer Mensch, ich Sundenknecht (Tenor) 06:06
13. Recitative. Ich habe wider Gott gehandelt (Tenor) 01:32
14. Aria. Erbarme dich! (Tenor) 04:24
15. Recitative. Erbarme dich! (Tenor) 01:22
16. Chorale. Bin ich gleich von dir gewichen (Chorus) 01:11
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 58 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
17. Aria with Chorale. Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (Soprano, Bass) 04:48
18. Recitative. Verfolgt dich gleich die arge Welt (Bass) 01:25
19. Aria. Ich bin vergnugt in meinem Leiden (Soprano) 04:22
20. Recitative. Kann es die Welt nicht lassen (Soprano) 01:11
21. Aria with Chorale. Ich hab fur mir ein schwere Reis (Soprano, Bass) 02:35

Performers:
Gerd Türk (Tenor)
Peter Kooy (Bass)
Carolyn Sampson (Soprano)
Bach Collegium Japan
Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

The four cantatas on this recording come from 1726-1727, Bach’s fourth year of service at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. During this time Bach showed a preference for solo cantatas, entrusting the text to a single solo voice. Three of these cantatas are of this type, while the fourth (BWV58) is scored for two voices. We can only speculate as to Bach’s reason for using this form of cantata: a shortage of choristers, perhaps, or the availability of especially gifted soloists. It’s also possible that Bach was preparing himself, and the choir, for the St Matthew Passion, planned for the Easter of 1727. Bach may also have wished to achieve greater variation in his cantata repertoire, a suggestion supported by the fact that he now more often incorporated instrumental movements. One example is the opening sinfonia of BWV 52, based on a preliminary version of the first Brandenburg Concerto. While Volume 37 in this series focussed on the solo cantatas for alto, as performed by counter-tenor Robin Blaze, this one gives equal space to three other soloists familiar to followers of the series. Ich habe genung, one of the most well-known of all Bach’s cantatas, is here performed in the original bass version by Peter Kooij, giving voice to the text’s journey from weariness of life to the joyful longing for the hereafter in the lively final movement. Carolyn Sampson interprets BWV 52, in which the falseness of the world is contrasted with the steadfastness of God, and joins Kooij in the dialogue of the duet cantata BWV58. The third soloist, Gerd Türk, performs the remaining cantata for solo tenor, Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht – a mournful recognition of man’s sinfulness and a plea for the mercy of God. The whole is accompanied by the eminent ensemble of Bach Collegium Japan, and infused by the vision of Masaaki Suzuki, as described on German website klassik.com: ‘In Suzuki's recordings the listener encounters a Bach full of élan and vitality, completely removed from any overly intellectual, protestant-puritan theoreticians, but instead opposing such an approach. Equally impressive as the architecture of Bach's music is the liveliness and impulsiveness, not to say spontaneity, which it projects.’ Hide




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