These performances by famed Bach conductor Masaaki Suzuki were recorded in 2016 and 2017 at Yale University in the U.S. but not released until 2022. There's no word from the BIS label on the delay, but it may be that the name of composer Nicolaus Bruhns wasn't considered a marquee attraction. Bruhns (1665-1697) died at 31, and the works recorded here represent about half of his total output (a second volume is on the way, eventually). He was a student of Dietrich Buxtehude and a predecessor of Bach; Bach's obituary listed ...
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These performances by famed Bach conductor Masaaki Suzuki were recorded in 2016 and 2017 at Yale University in the U.S. but not released until 2022. There's no word from the BIS label on the delay, but it may be that the name of composer Nicolaus Bruhns wasn't considered a marquee attraction. Bruhns (1665-1697) died at 31, and the works recorded here represent about half of his total output (a second volume is on the way, eventually). He was a student of Dietrich Buxtehude and a predecessor of Bach; Bach's obituary listed Bruhns among Bach's compositional models. That's easy to hear in the two polyphonic organ pieces here, which receive crack performances from Suzuki on the fine organ at Yale's Marquand Chapel. The influence in the vocal pieces is a bit harder to hear. Bruhns is closer to Buxtehude (and there's even the flavor of Heinrich Schütz) in these chamber cantatas, for soloists, violins, and organ continuo, than he is to Bach. However, listen to the opening bass-baritone "sacred concerto" De...
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