Bach: Lutheran Masses, Vol. 2 / Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki

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Label
BIS
Release Date
February 12, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH PERANDA
    • PERFORMER
      Bach Collegium Japan, Blazikova, Lunn, Matsui, Blaze, Nakashima, Turk, Fujii, Kooij, Worner
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 12, 2016
    • UPC
      7318599921211
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2121
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    2. Gloria (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    3. Domine Deus (Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    4. Qui tollis peccata mundi (Soprano)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Hana Blažíková

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    5. Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Robin Blaze

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    6. Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    7. Kyrie (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    8. Gloria (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    9. Domine Deus (Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    10. Qui tollis (Soprano)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Hana Blažíková

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    11. Quoniam (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    12. Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    13. Kyrie

      Composer: Gioseppe Peranda

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    14. Gloria

      Composer: Gioseppe Peranda

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki


By the time J.S. Bach began composing, Martin Luther’s Reformation had profoundly altered the Church’s traditional form of worship. In German churches, the customary Latin had been replaced with the country’s native language, although the Latin mass text -particularly the Kyrie and Gloria portions - remained in Protestant church music. These "incomplete" mass settings were named "Missa." Today, these compositions are frequently referred to as "Lutheran Masses."

The two Lutheran Masses recorded here, like their companion works, the Missae in G Minor and G Major (BWV 235 & 236), make wide use of previous compositions by Bach and incorporate reworkings of arias and choruses from his cantatas while still holding their own distinctive mechanisms. Bach did not only perform his own compositions, he also performed works by other composers, including Marco Gioseppe Peranda, whose Kyrie-Gloria Mass is featured on this disc. Bach likely performed Peranda’s mass in the latter years of his Leipzig period.

Review:

The Bach Collegium Japan alight on the aesthetic of the new liturgical context with supreme eloquence in both of these works. Suzuki judges the pacing with quiet authority, promoting a generous phraseology where voices and instruments cohabit with a glorious quasi-nonchalance. The two Masses are among the finest recorded.

– Gramophone