Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 9 - Contest of Phoebus & Pan / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan

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Release Date
January 5, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki, Lunn, Blaze, Phan, Nakashima, Immler, Worner, Suga, San?Nomiya
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 05, 2018
    • UPC
      7318599923116
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2311
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    2. Recitative: Und du bist doch so unverschämt und frei (Phoebus, Pan, Momus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Christian Immler, Dominik Wörner, Joanne Lunn

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    3. Aria: Patron, das macht der Wind (Momus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Joanne Lunn

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    4. Recitative: Was braucht ihr euch zu zanken (Mercurius, Phoebus, Pan)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze, Christian Immler, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    5. Aria: Mit Verlangen drück ich deine zarten Wangen (Phoebus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Christian Immler

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    6. Recitative: Pan, rücke deine Kehle nun (Momus, Pan)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Joanne Lunn, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    7. Aria: Zu Tanze, zu Sprunge (Pan)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    8. Recitative: Nunmehro Richter her (Mercurius, Tmolus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze, Katsuhiko Nakashima

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    9. Aria: Phoebus, deine Melodei (Tmolus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Katsuhiko Nakashima, Masamitsu Sannomiya

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    10. Recitative: Komm, Midas, sage du nun an (Pan, Midas)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Dominik Wörner, Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    11. Aria: Pan ist Meister, lasst ihn gehn (Midas)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    12. Recitative: Wie, Midas, bist du toll (Momus, Mercurius, Tmolus, Phoebus, Midas, Pan)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Joanne Lunn, Robin Blaze, Katsuhiko Nakashima, Christian Immler, Nicholas Phan, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    13. Aria: Aufgeblasne Hitze (Mercurius)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze, Kiyomi Suga

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    14. Recitative: Du guter Midas, geh nun hin (Momus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Joanne Lunn

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    15. Labt das Herz, ihr holden Saiten (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    16. Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompeten (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    17. Recitative: Die stille Pleisse spielt (Tenor)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    18. Aria: Augustus' Namenstages Schimmer (Tenor)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    19. Recitative: Augustus' Wohl ist der treuen Sachsen Wohlergehn (Soprano, Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Joanne Lunn, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    20. Aria: Mich kann die susse Ruhe laben (Soprano, Bass) - Ritornello

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Joanne Lunn, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    21. Recitative: Augustus schützt die frohen Felder (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    22. Aria: Preiset, späte Folgezeiten (Alto)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Robin Blaze

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    23. Recitative: Ihr Fröhlichen, herbei (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Performer: Joanne Lunn, Robin Blaze, Nicholas Phan, Dominik Wörner

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    24. August lebe, lebe, König (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    25. Marche

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki


Most of Johannes Sebastian Bach’s secular cantatas were written for specific political, academic or private festive occasions. In the case of Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201, however, it may well be that Bach composed it for his own sake: the message conveyed in the work can be interpreted as a defence of Bach’s own artistry and musical attitudes against the trend of the time towards easier fare.

Subtitling the cantata ‘dramma per musica’, Bach sets an episode from Greek mythology in which Phoebus (Apollo) and Pan enter into a musical contest. Phoebus, the god of the arts, presents a beautifully balanced and technically accomplished aria, while Pan sings a rustic dance tune. The judges offer Phoebus the prize, but the verdict isn’t unanimous – King Midas prefers Pan’s catchy ditty, for which Phoebus punishes him by giving him donkey ears. On this amply-filled disc Bach’s praise of high art is followed by another tribute, now to Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. It is likely that Augustus never knew that the same music had been used 10 years earlier to congratulate a Leipzig academic on his promotion: Auf, schmetternde Töne… BWV 207a is based almost entirely on Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten, BWV 207. But Bach was something of the recycler’s recycler, and already BWV 207 included music from the First Brandenburg Concerto, with a choir added to the forces, and trumpets and timpani replacing the horns.

REVIEWS:

BWV201 is an enormous piece lasting over three-quarters of an hour...The score is packed with imaginative passages describing the landscape, the characters and the events of the preposterous mythological scenario. It is, needless to say, utterly superb music.

BWV207a...like the companion piece on this disc, is indulgently scored with trumpets and timpani in addition to the usual woodwind and strings. A grand and exciting sound it all makes too. Thirty minutes of the most glorious music.

It is almost superfluous to mention that the performers are excellent, the notes are detailed and scholarly and the recording is spectacular in its clarity and spaciousness but still a realistic sound picture of the recording space.

-- MusicWeb International