Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 10: Cantatas of Contentment / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan

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BIS
Release Date
September 7, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki, Sampson, Blaze, Sakurada, Worner, Suga, San?Nomiya, Wakamatsu
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 07, 2018
    • UPC
      7318599923512
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2351
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Chorus: Angenehmes Wiederau

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    2. Recitative: So ziehen wir in diesem Hause hier (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Robin Blaze, Makoto Sakurada, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    3. Aria: Willkommen im Heil (Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    4. Recitative: Da heute dir, gepriesner Hennicke (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    5. Aria: Was die Seele kann ergötzen (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    6. Recitative: Und wie ich jederzeit bedacht (Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    7. Aria: Ich will dich halten (Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    8. Recitative: Und obwohl sonst der Unbestand (Soprano)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    9. Aria: Eilt, ihr Stunden, wie ihr wollt (Soprano)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    10. Recitative: So recht! ihr seid mir werte Gäste (Tenor)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Makoto Sakurada

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    11. Aria: So wie ich die Tropfen zolle (Tenor)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Makoto Sakurada

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    12. Recitative: Drum, angenehmes Wiederau (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Robin Blaze, Makoto Sakurada, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    13. Chorus: Angenehmes Wiederau

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    14. Recitative: Ich bin in mir vergnügt

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    15. Aria: Ruhig und in sich zufrieden

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    16. Recitative: Ihr Seelen, die ihr außer euch stets in die Irre lauft

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    17. Aria: Die Schätzbarkeit der weiten Erden

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    18. Recitative: Schwer ist es zwar, viel Eitles zu besitzen

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    19. Aria: Meine Seele sei vergnügt

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    20. Recitative: Ein edler Mensch ist Perlenmuscheln gleich

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    21. Aria: Himmlische Vergnügsamkeit

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki


Robert von Bahr, CEO of BIS Records, writes of this release: “When we finished the Bach Sacred Cantatas there was an emptiness with us all participants, which was - partly - alleviated by the fact that there were several records of secular Cantatas still to be recorded. And now we are at the bitter end of those as well, and there are no more Bach Cantatas to be recorded. After 23 years of a steady diet of Bach Cantatas, to be without them is brutal and cruel. All the better, then, that we have finished on a high point. Carolyn Sampson’s singing in the solo cantata BWV 204 beggars belief - it is as close to Heaven one can hope to come on this Earth. Big words, and yet too small for what she does. This is the crowning glory of a series that has transformed my life and given me so much more fulfillment that I could possibly have hoped for. Thank you, Masaaki and your faithful BCJ, for creating a musical treasure possible to be treasured by a grateful mankind.”

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REVIEWS:

This issue completes one of the great modern recording odysseys, being the final disc of complete surviving secular cantatas from Bach Collegium Japan. The Bach Collegium Japan sing and play as satisfyingly as they have done since their foundation in 1990 and the hero of the disc, as ever, is Masaaki Suzuki. His sense of the tempo giusto in this music is unerring, and his response to the sprightly dance measures is always infectious.

– MusicWeb International

We celebrate here, as always, many of Suzuki’s finest qualities of expressive lucidity, unforced coherence, and the quiet nobility of one serving the music as the most natural of reflexes.

Carolyn Sampson’s ever-inspiring contributions close the project with Ich bin in mir vernügt, a little-known solo soprano cantata compared to the Nos 51, 199, and 210s of this world. Just when one thought it impossible to hear Bach sung any better than in her recent performance of No 105 (arr. Schumann—Ondine, 8/18), she brings an Arcadian coloration to ‘Meine Seele sei vernügt’, placing her among the finest exponents on record of this composer’s peerlessly demanding soprano-writing.

– Gramophone