Hailed by the international music press and highly praised by music connoisseurs, the recordings of Bach’s entire body of vocal music made by the Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ), its conductor Masaaki Suzuki and numerous prestigious soloists, many of whom have remained remarkably loyal to the undertaking from the outset, are here brought together to form the only complete set of these works in SACD format.
Suzuki’s aim with these works is to deliver ‘a message which can touch the human heart, regardless of nationality or cultural tradition’, and so he delivers performances characterised by a particular attention to natural phrasing and timbral homogeneity in the service of transparency, a finely articulated expression without affectation and a balanced dialogue between voices and instruments.
In addition to its 78 discs which include sacred andsecular cantatas, the two Passions, the Christmas, Easter and Ascension Oratorios, the Mass in B minor, the motets, the Magnificat, the Lutheran Masses as well as songs and alternative movements, this box set includes four booklets providing essays about the music (in English, German and French) by world-renowned experts on the music as well as all the sung texts (in German and English translation).
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Cantata BWV11 'Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen' (Ascension Oratorio)
Cantatas (sacred) (complete)
Cantatas (secular) (complete)
Christe eleison in G minor, BWV242
Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts-Oratorium), BWV248
Easter Oratorio, BWV249
Magnificat in D major, BWV243
Mass in A major, BWV234
Mass in B minor, BWV232
Mass in F major, BWV233
Mass in G major, BWV236
Mass in G minor, BWV235
Missa in C minor, BWVAnh26
» Kyrie in C minor
Motet BWV118b 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht'
Motet BWV1164 'Ich lasse dich nicht'
Motets, BWV225-230
Psalm 51 from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater 'Tilge, Hochster, meine Sunden', BWV1083
Quodlibet, BWV524
Sanctus in C major, BWV237
Sanctus in D major, BWV238
Sanctus in D major, BWV241 (version in E major - Kerll, arr. JS Bach)
Sanctus in G major, BWV240
Sinfonia in F major, BWV1046a
St John Passion, BWV245
St Matthew Passion, BWV244
