Compared with the other ongoing series of Bach's cantatas, those of conductor Masaaki Suzuki and his historical-instrument Bach Collegium Japan are quite restrained in their basic outlook. There are warmer, more humanistic readings (such as those by John Eliot Gardiner), and there are northern European performances that make greater use of the edge Baroque-era instruments can bring. Suzuki's virtues are extreme clarity and an attention to detail that can often coalesce into moments of jewel-like beauty. If you've been ...
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Compared with the other ongoing series of Bach's cantatas, those of conductor Masaaki Suzuki and his historical-instrument Bach Collegium Japan are quite restrained in their basic outlook. There are warmer, more humanistic readings (such as those by John Eliot Gardiner), and there are northern European performances that make greater use of the edge Baroque-era instruments can bring. Suzuki's virtues are extreme clarity and an attention to detail that can often coalesce into moments of jewel-like beauty. If you've been thinking of giving Suzuki's rather pricey Bach discs a try, this group of Leipzig cantatas from 1724 shows off his methods to good advantage. The opening chorales in these cantatas are unusually complex, and a couple of them are weighty enough that they feel like the centerpieces of the cantatas in which they appear. The choral parts are balanced by dense orchestral writing that in two cases includes cornets and trombones. Suzuki chisels out sonic space for this bottom-heavy writing in...
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