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

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Details

Composer
BACH PERANDA
Artist
Bach Collegium Japan, Blazikova, Lunn, Matsui, Blaze, Nakashima, Turk, Fujii, Kooij, Worner
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Feb 12, 2016
Catalog #
BIS-2121
UPC
7318599921211

About

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

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Kyrie (Chorus) 06:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    Kyrie (Chorus)
    Duration
    06:04
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  2. 2 Gloria (Chorus) 05:12
    Track
    2
    Title
    Gloria (Chorus)
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  3. 3 Domine Deus (Bass) 05:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    Domine Deus (Bass)
    Duration
    05:54
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Peter Kooij
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  4. 4 Qui tollis peccata mundi (Soprano) 05:58
    Track
    4
    Title
    Qui tollis peccata mundi (Soprano)
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Hana Blažíková
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  5. 5 Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Alto) 03:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Alto)
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Robin Blaze
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  6. 6 Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus) 03:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  7. 7 Kyrie (Chorus) 03:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    Kyrie (Chorus)
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  8. 8 Gloria (Chorus) 05:12
    Track
    8
    Title
    Gloria (Chorus)
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  9. 9 Domine Deus (Bass) 03:13
    Track
    9
    Title
    Domine Deus (Bass)
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Peter Kooij
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  10. 10 Qui tollis (Soprano) 05:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    Qui tollis (Soprano)
    Duration
    05:39
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Hana Blažíková
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  11. 11 Quoniam (Alto) 03:34
    Track
    11
    Title
    Quoniam (Alto)
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Robin Blaze
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  12. 12 Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus) 02:34
    Track
    12
    Title
    Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  13. 13 Kyrie 05:35
    Track
    13
    Title
    Kyrie
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Gioseppe Peranda
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki
  14. 14 Gloria 11:08
    Track
    14
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    11:08
    Composer
    Gioseppe Peranda
    Ensemble
    Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
    Conductor
    Masaaki Suzuki