Verbum caro factum est: A Christmas Greeting / Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan

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BIS
Release Date
November 2, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bach Collegium Japan Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      Masato Suzuki, Masaaki Suzuki
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 02, 2018
    • UPC
      7318599922911
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2291
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Piae Cantiones: Verbum caro factum est

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Aki Matsui

    2. Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 1. Noël sur les jeux d'Anches sans tremblant

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

    3. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    4. Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 2. Noël en Dialogue, Duo, Trio, sur le Cornet de Récit, les Tierces du Positif et la Pédale de Flûte

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

    5. Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier, BWV 469

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    6. Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 3. Noël en musette, en dialogue, et en duo

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

    7. Stille Nacht (Silent Night)

      Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    8. In dulci jubilo

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    9. The First Noel

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    10. Festgesang, MWV D4, "Gutenberg-Kantate": No. 2. (adap. W.H. Cummings as Hark! The Herald Angels Sing)

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    11. Adeste fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)

      Composer: John Francis Wade

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    12. Away In a Manger - It Came Upon The Midnight Clear - Ding, Dong! Merrily On High

      Composer: William J. Kirkpatrick, Richard S. Willis, Traditional

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    13. Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 6. Noël sur les jeux d'anches, Adam fut un pauvre homme

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

    14. Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 7. Noël en Trio et en Dialogue, le Cornet de Récit de la main droite, la Tierce du Positif de la main gauche

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

    15. O Jesulein süss! O Jesulein mild!

      Composer: Samuel Scheidt

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    16. Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 10. Noël grand-jeu et duo, Quand Dieu naquit a Noël

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

    17. Veni, veni Emmanuel (O come, o come Emmanuel)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

      Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki

    18. Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 12. Noël suisse, Ô Dieu de clémence

      Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin

      Performer: Masato Suzuki

    19. Trent Codices: Verbum caro factum est (arr. for 3 voices)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Aki Matsui, Hiroya Aoki, Toru Kaku


Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki have sung of the wonders of Christmas a number of times, in Bach’s cantatas and Christmas Oratorio as well as in Handel’s Messiah. Here, instead, we hear the choir a cappella in a selection of classic Christmas carols. Masato Suzuki, son of the ensemble’s founder and director, has selected some of the best-loved songs of Christmas, such as Adeste fideles and Silent Night, as well as less familiar hymns, arranging them especially for these singers. A consummate organist, he also performs a number of Louis-Claude Daquin’s noëls variés – keyboard variations on Christmas songs which became a highly popular genre in 18th-century France.

REVIEWS:

The performances are typically classy, and punctuated by a selection of Daquin’s ‘Noels’ for solo organ, played with peppery registrations by Suzuki.

– BBC Music Magazine

The performances themselves are superb, as one would expect from this outstanding chorus. Masato Suzuki dazzles us with his virtuosity...

-- American Record Guide