With this album of Bach cantatas, Japanese conductor and historical-performance specialist Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan approach the end of their magisterial cycle of Bach's cantatas. The works included here are something of a miscellany, and it may be that the selections of the previous releases have brought this one down to odds and ends; the works have little in common beyond being from the later part of Bach's career. Two are nonliturgical, and one of those is a wedding cantata whose second half bears the ...
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With this album of Bach cantatas, Japanese conductor and historical-performance specialist Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan approach the end of their magisterial cycle of Bach's cantatas. The works included here are something of a miscellany, and it may be that the selections of the previous releases have brought this one down to odds and ends; the works have little in common beyond being from the later part of Bach's career. Two are nonliturgical, and one of those is a wedding cantata whose second half bears the amusing subtitle "post copulationem" (probably what was meant was simply that the first half of the work was played before the vows and the second half after, but if using the recording for your own wedding, it should be considered). The slightly random nature of the program, however, marks the end of the list of possible complaints about this performance, which shows no evidence whatsover of flagging energy on the musicians' part. All the virtues of Suzuki's series are here in...
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Add this copy of Cantatas 54 to cart. $21.80, new condition, Sold by Importcds rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sunrise, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by BIS.
