J.S. Bach - The Vocal Works Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki

• Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681 - 1732): Languet anima mea, BWV deest 1006 (After Bartolomeo Conti):
• 1 Conti: Languet anima mea, BWV deest 1006 (After Bartolomeo Conti): I. Recitativo: Languet anima mea 01:10
• 2 Conti: Languet anima mea, BWV deest 1006 (After Bartolomeo Conti): II. Aria: O vulnera, vita coelestis 03:23
• 3 Conti: Languet anima mea, BWV deest 1006 (After Bartolomeo Conti): III. Recitativo: Amoris tui iaculo 00:44
• 4 Conti: Languet anima mea, BWV deest 1006 (After Bartolomeo Conti): IV. Aria: Tu lumen mentis es 06:59
• 5 Conti: Languet anima mea, BWV deest 1006 (After Bartolomeo Conti): V. Alleluja 02:02
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767): Der Herr ist König, TWV 8:6:
• 6 Telemann: Der Herr ist König, TWV 8:6: No. 6, Aria: Prahlet, Ihr Völker (88.2 kHz): 04:31
• 7 Telemann: Der Herr ist König, TWV 8:6: No. 5, Chorus: Die Töchter Zion sind fröhlich (88.2 kHz) 02:27
• Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt, BWV Anh. 160:
• 8 Telemann: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt, BWV Anh. 160: No. 1, Chorus: Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt (88.2 kHz) 04:00
• 9 Telemann: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt, BWV Anh. 160: No. 2, Chorale: Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren (88.2 kHz) 04:46
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach:
• 10 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 12, Gib Dich zufrieden und sei stille, BWV 510 01:14
• 11 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 13a, Gib Dich zufrieden und sei stille, BWV 511 00:57
• 12 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 20a-b, Erbauliche Gedanken eines Tobackrauchers, BWV 515 04:46
• 13 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 25, Bist Du bei mir, BWV 508 02:40
• 14 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 33, Aria: Warum betrübst Du Dich, BWV 516 01:25
• 15 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 34. Recitative: Ich habe genug!, BWV 82/2 01:12
• 16 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 38, Aria: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen, BWV 82/3 06:42
• 17 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 35, Schaffs mit mir, Gott, nach deinem Willen, BWV 514 00:46
• 18 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 37, Willst du dein Herz mir schenken (Aria di Giovannini), BWV 518 02:21
• 19 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 39b, Chorale: Dir, dir Jehova, will ich singen, BWV 299 01:21
• 20 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 40, Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seelen, BWV 517 01:08
• 21 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 41, Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke, BWV 509 01:15
• 22 Bach: 2. Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach: No. 42, O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 513 01:08
• Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli:
• 23 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 14, Ich steh an Deiner Krippen hier, BWV 469 01:43
• 24 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 16, O Jesulein süß, o Jesulein mild, BWV 493 01:36
• 25 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 18, Lasset uns mit Jesu ziehen, BWV 481 02:12
• 26 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 19, Mein Jesu! was vor Seelenweh, BWV 487 03:11
• 27 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 29, Brunnquell aller Güter, BWV 445 01:33
• 28 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 30, Gott, wie groß ist deine Güte, BWV 462 01:43
• 29 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 32, Dir, dir Jehova, will ich singen, BWV 452 01:23
• 30 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 37, Gott lebet noch, BWV 461 01:43
• 31 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 41, Nicht so traurig, nicht so sehr, BWV 489 01:35
• 32 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 42, O liebe Seele, zieh die Sinnen, BWV 494 02:25
• 33 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 44, Vergiss mein nicht, BWV 505 02:32
• 34 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 53, Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein, BWV 470 01:36
• 35 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 59, Komm, süßer Tod, BWV 478 02:56
• 36 Bach: Musicalisches Gesang-Buch Georg Christian Schemelli: No. 67, Kommt, Seelen, dieser Tag and Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, BWV 479 & 370 02:29
• 3 Wedding Chorales:
• 37 Bach: 3 Wedding Chorales: No. 1, Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 250 01:00
• 38 Bach: 3 Wedding Chorales: No. 2, Sei Lob und Ehr, dem höchsten Gut, BWV 251 00:59
• 39 Bach: 3 Wedding Chorales: No. 3, Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 252 01:03
• Carl Heinrich Graun (1704 - 1759): Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt, BWV 1167:
• 40 Graun: Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt, BWV 1167: Arioso: No. 20, So heb ich denn mein Auge sehnlich auf, BWV 1088 02:28
• 41 Graun: Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt, BWV 1167: No. 19 Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127/1 (Variante) 05:32
• 42 Graun: Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt, BWV 1167: No. 39, Der Gerechte kömmt um, BWV 1149 06:55
• Total Runtime 01:43:31

Info for J.S. Bach - The Vocal Works

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 high-resolution 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 albums which include sacred and secular 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 Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

Masaaki Suzuki
Since founding Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, Masaaki Suzuki has established himself as a leading authority on the works of Bach. He has remained their Music Director ever since, taking them regularly to major venues and festivals in Europe and the USA and building up an outstanding reputation for the expressive refinement and truth of his performances. In addition to working with renowned period ensembles, such as Collegium Vocale Gent and Philharmonia Baroque, he is invited to conduct modern instrument orchestras in repertoire as diverse as Britten, Fauré, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Stravinsky. Last season saw his debut appearances with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Melbourne Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, while engagements for 2012/2013 include return visits to the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Verbier Festival and his debuts with the New York Philharmonic and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart.

Suzuki’s impressive discography on the BIS label, featuring Bach’s complete works for harpsichord and his interpretations of Bach’s major choral works and sacred cantatas with Bach Collegium Japan (of which he has already completed over fifty volumes of a project to record the complete series) have brought him many critical plaudits – the Times has written: “it would take an iron bar not to be moved by his crispness, sobriety and spiritual vigour”. In 2010, Suzuki and his ensemble were awarded both a German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik) and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année for their recording of Bach motets, which was also honoured in 2011 with a BBC Music Magazine Award.

Highlights of last season with Bach Collegium Japan included a European tour incorporating concerts at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts and Paris Salle Pleyel amongst others, and culminating with a performance of the St Matthew Passion at the Thomaskirche, Leipzig where Suzuki was presented with the 2012 Leipzig Bach Prize. This season sees the group in residence at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht and Bremen Musikfest.

Masaaki Suzuki combines his conducting career with his work as organist and harpsichordist. Born in Kobe, he graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a degree in composition and organ performance and went on to study harpsichord and organ at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam under Ton Koopman and Piet Kee. Founder and head of the early music department at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he is currently Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting at the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum.

Suzuki was decorated with ‘Das Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik’ from Germany in April 2001, Bremen Musikfest Award 2011, and Bach Medal 2012 by the city of Leipzig in June 2012.

Bach Collegium Japan
was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, its inspirational Music Director, with the aim of introducing Japanese audiences to period instrument performances of great works from the baroque period. Comprised of both baroque orchestra and chorus, their activities include an annual concert series of Bach’s cantatas and a number of instrumental programmes.

They have acquired a formidable international reputation through their acclaimed recordings of the major choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the BIS label; this season sees the triumphant conclusion of their recorded cycle of the complete Church Cantatas, a huge undertaking comprising over fifty CDs initiated in 1995. Their recent recording of Bach Motets was honoured with a German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik), Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2010 and also in 2011 with a BBC Music Magazine Award.

Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki have shared their interpretations across the international music scene with performances in venues as far afield as Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York and Seoul, and at major festivals such as the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. In 2010 the ensemble celebrated their 20th anniversary with a series of special concerts in Tokyo, and last season included performances at the Musikfest Bremen as well as appearances at New York’s Lincoln Center where Masaaki Suzuki and the choir were invited to collaborate with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to open its Bach Variations Festival. This season they undertake their first visit to the New Zealand International Arts Festival and embark upon another major European tour during which they bring Bach’s St John Passion and a Cantata programme to cities such as Barcelona, Lyon, Paris and Toulouse.

This album contains no booklet.