Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 55 Bach Collegium Japan Orchestra & Masaaki Suzuki

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69
• 1Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (Chorus)04:56
• 2Recitative: Wie gross ist Gottes Gute doch! (Soprano)01:15
• 3Aria: Meine Seele, auf! erzahle (Alto)05:58
• 4Recitative: Der Herr hat grosse Ding an uns getan (Tenor)02:12
• 5Aria: Mein Erloser und Erhalter (Bass)03:16
• 6Chorale: Es danke, Gott, und lobe dich (Chorus)01:23
• Freue Dich, erlöst Schar, BWV 30
• 7Part I: Freue dich, erloste Schar (Chorus)03:59
• 8Part I: Recitative: Wir haben Rast (Bass)00:54
• 9Part I: Aria: Gelobet sei Gott, gelobet sein Name (Bass)04:33
• 10Part I: Recitative: Der Herold kommt und meldt den Konig an (Alto)00:44
• 11Part I: Aria: Kommt, ihr angefochtnen Sunder (Alto)05:19
• 12Part I: Chorale: Eine Stimme lasst sich horen (Chorus)01:12
• 13Part II: Recitative: So bist du denn, mein Heil, bedacht (Bass)00:57
• 14Part II: Aria: Ich will nun hassen (Bass)05:38
• 15Part II: Recitative: Und ob wohl sonst der Unbestand (Soprano)00:56
• 16Part II: Aria: Eilt, ihr Stunden, kommt herbei (Soprano)04:29
• 17Part II: Recitative: Geduld, der angenehme Tag (Tenor)01:14
• 18Part II: Freue dich, geheilgte Schar (Chorus)04:02
• Gloria In Excelsis, BWV 191
• 19Gloria in excelsis Deo (Chorus)06:13
• 20Duet: Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui sancto (Soprano, Tenor)04:04
• 21Sicut erat in principio (Chorus)04:00
• Total Runtime01:07:14

Info for Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 55

18 years and 55 discs later, a great adventure is brought to a close. The chronological approach adopted by Suzuki means that the three works included here are the last extant cantatas by Bach’s hand.

This series has been a landmark recording project for BIS and is released to coincide with the label's 40th anniversary.

Throughout the series, individual volumes have regularly picked up ‘choice’ awards from the major music magazines as well as numerous appearances in the UK classical chart.

…Gloria in excelsis, glory to God in the highest…may not technically be a cantata…but it rounds off the series in superb style, especially as its Christmas-related text makes it appropriate for the forthcoming season.“ (Geoffrey Molyneux, MusicWeb International)

„Amid the devastation after the Kobe earthquake of January 1995, the Chapel of the Kobe Shoin Women’s University provided the peaceful recording venue for Masaaki Suzuki’s first of 55 discs of Bach Cantatas. Eighteen years later, this last CD is the pinnacle of an outstanding achievement.“ (BBC Music Magazine)

„This final volume highlights the maturing sense, as witnessed especially in the latter half of the series, of Bach Collegium Japan’s growing stature and confidence to break free of generic convention towards ever greater interpretative character. The best is as good as anyone anywhere – and the whole, of the six complete cantata sets, probably the most consistent.“ (Gramophone)

Hana Blažíková, soprano
Robin Blaze, countertenor
Gerd Türk, tenor
Peter Kooij, bass
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki, condutor

Recorded February 2013 at the Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel, Japan
Produced by Thore Brinkmann
Engineered by Jens Braun

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