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Bach - Motets RecommendedYukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus. Instrumental support... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Award Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Chorale
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano I), Rachel Nicholls (soprano II), Robin Blaze (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The choir is small enough, two/three to a part, to project great clarity and detail - 'Osanna' is delightfully exuberant - though elsewhere Suzuki's tempos are rather deliberate… — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th October 2007
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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Lost Is My Quiet Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Joseph Middleton (piano)
The art of vocal duetting is exemplified at its best in this recital by two of today’s finest British singers, working with an accompanist of equal merit…each singer has solo items…Yet the most... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Telemann: Recorder Sonatas Dan Laurin (recorder), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Mats Olofsson (cello)
you get a sense of the sustained gestation period of these readings. If that has you hoping for some strong opinions, then you’re in luck. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gringolts brings together the Baroque and the Modern in this carefully curated recording, with an emphasis on the latter. Brice Pauset’s 2008 Kontrapartita, which intersperses Bach’s Partitas,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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There’s no doubting the heft of the organ that Christoph Treutmann the Elder built for St Georg’s Grauhof during the second decade of Bach’s employment in Leipzig...For all its sonic splendours,... — More…
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If, as is often said, Bach saw fugue as simply the most natural medium for composing beautiful music, Suzuki demonstrates that it is also good for the exciting, the playful, the sombre, and... — More…
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Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 3 on the Great Silbermann Organ of Freiberg Cathedral
Masaaki Suzuki (organ)
Suzuki’s performances are at times quite measured, even understated, although that makes the moments when flair shines through all the more exciting. Overall it is the magisterial sense of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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