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Remember Sugar Plums? That was the Hoffnung Festival performance by the Dolmetsch Ensemble of Tchaikovsky’s greatest hits (including the 1812 Overture) on baroque instruments. It
Having very favorably reviewed several earlier installments of the Bach Collegium Japan’s now near-complete cycle of Bach cantatas, listening to this 52nd volume is a
Bach’s motets have been very lucky on disc. This latest version from Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan is as good as it gets.
The Orchestral Suites already have been released and received a 10/10 at that time. However, at 3 SACDs for the price of 2, even if
These performances are magnificent, and offering two SACDs for the price of one makes them a good deal too. There have been many fine recordings
This performance of the B minor Mass has everything: great playing, sensational singing from the soloists and chorus, ideal pacing, and a powerful feeling for
Those who lament the austere, dispassionate, “scholarly” approach that more often than not informs today’s original-instrument performances of Bach cantatas will find much to rejoice
My enthusiasm for Volume 1 in the Bach Collegium Japan’s cycle of Bach’s cantatas continues here in a program that inludes a work (BWV 131)
Volume 7 of the Bach Collegium Japan’s ongoing cycle includes three cantatas (BWV 61, 132, and 172) composed during Bach’s final years at Weimar as
This 10th volume in BIS’s ongoing Bach cantata series features three works Bach composed during his first summer in Leipzig. While BWV 179 certainly has
