

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)

Philippe Herreweghe’s spirited, stylish, vibrantly recorded Magnificat from 1990 is a welcome re-entry to the catalog (it also was included in a CD-Rom set with

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

These three cantatas contain some heavy assignments for the three vocal soloists, challenges met with complete success. Robin Blaze offers steady tone and not a

In Vol. 5 of the Bach Collegium Japan’s ongoing cycle of J.S. Bach’s complete cantatas we hear the composer experimenting with widely diverse orchestration, vocal

Volume 8 of the Bach Collegium Japan’s complete cycle of J.S. Bach’s cantatas begins a series devoted to works Bach composed throughout his tenure at

Volume 6 in Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach cantata cycle features only two works–however, given how frequently they were performed and how often they were revised by

Volumes 1 and 2 of the Bach Collegium Japan’s Bach cantata cycle concentrated on the composer’s earliest cantatas, written during his two-year tenure as organist

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