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Suzuki and his singers are at ease with this carefree Bach, introducing the Quodlibet with background babble, and singing with exaggerated nasal accents...[Lunn's] lyrical, sustained aria in... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2013
Catalogue No: BIS2041
Label: BIS
Series: Suzuki Bach Cantatas
Length: 77 minutes

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV173a 'Durchlauchtster Leopold'

Work length27:43

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Joanne Lunn, Roderick Williams
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: July 2012
Recording Venue: MS&AD Shirakawa Hall, Nagoya, Japan

No. 1, Durchlauchtster Leopold

Track length11:19

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No. 2, Güldner Sonnen frohe Stunden

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No. 3, Leopolds Vortrefflichkeiten

Track length3:35

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No. 4, Unter seinem Purpursaum

Track length1:47

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No. 5, Durchlauchtigster, den Anhalt Vater nennt

Track length3:45

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No. 6, So schau dies holden Tages Licht

Track length1:14

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No. 7, Dein Name gleich der Sonnen geh

Track length3:19

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No. 8, Nimm auch, großer Fürst, uns auf

Track length2:04

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV202 'Weichet Nur, betrübte Schatten' (Wedding Cantata)

Work length20:18

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Joanne Lunn
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: July 2012
Recording Venue: MS&AD Shirakawa Hall, Nagoya, Japan

No. 1, Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten

Track length2:10

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No. 2, Die Welt wird wieder neu

Track length6:03

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No. 3, Phoebus eilt mit schnellen Pferde

Track length0:28

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No. 4, Drum sucht auch Amor sein Vergnugen

Track length3:05

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No. 5, Wenn die Fruhlingslufte streichen

Track length0:41

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No. 6, Und dieses ist das Glucke

Track length2:45

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No. 7, Sich uben im Lieben, in Scherzen sich herzen

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No. 8, So wei das Band der keuschen Liebe

Track length3:56

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No. 9, Sehet in Zufriedenheit tausend helle Wohlfahrstage

Track length0:27

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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV36c 'Schwingt freudig euch empor'

Work length25:45

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Joanne Lunn, Makoto Sakurada, Roderick Williams
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: July 2012
Recording Venue: MS&AD Shirakawa Hall, Nagoya, Japan

No. 1, Schwingt freudig euch empor

Track length1:31

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No. 2, Ein Herz, in zärtlichem Empfinden

Track length4:02

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No. 3, Die Liebe führt mit sanften Schritten

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No. 4, Du bist es ja

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No. 5, Der Tag, der dich vordem gebar

Track length0:48

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No. 6, Nur dieses Einz'ge sorgen wir

Track length2:46

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No. 7, Auch mit gedämpften, schwachen Stimmen

Track length0:38

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No. 8, Bei solchen freudenvollen Stunden

Track length8:51

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No. 9, Wie die Jahre sich verneuen

Track length0:22

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Bach, J S: Quodlibet, BWV 524 (Fragment)

Work length3:27

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Joanne Lunn, Hiroya Aoki, Makoto Sakurada, Roderick Williams
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
Recorded: July 2012
Recording Venue: MS&AD Shirakawa Hall, Nagoya, Japan

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Although two of the works on this disc were composed for weddings, they are completely different in character. Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten is a charming and gracious garland of recitatives and arias for soprano solo in which Spring, Flora, Apollo and Amor are all invoked in a blessing of the newly wedded couple and their union. The Quodlibet (Latin for ‘what pleases’) on the other hand, is an altogether unceremonious composition which was probably intended for a private function in Bach’s own circle or family. All we have is a fragment of the work – in Bach’s own hand – and the beginning and ending of the piece, including the title page, are missing. It is therefore not even certain that it is Bach’s own work, but may have been a collaboration between several of the wedding guests. Compositions of this kind belong to a tradition which combines quotations from songs, toasts, market traders’ calls, proverbs and puns, and were especially popular at weddings – where they frequently got out of hand! The third disc in Bach Collegium Japan’s series of secular cantatas also includes a birthday cantata composed in the honour of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen, Bach’s employer during years 1717–23. Durchlauchtster Leopold (‘Most illustrious Leopold’) celebrates the ‘propitious day’ while extolling the ruler’s ‘excellent attributes’ and ‘princely renown’. Two duets in minuet form lend the work the character of a courtly serenade, which didn’t stop Bach from reusing it, with a new text, as a church cantata a few years later. The name of the recipient of Schwingt freudig euch empor, another congratulatory cantata, is no longer known, but the text tells us that he was a teacher of high standing and of an advanced age. Once again Bach, who must have been attached to the work, reused it as a church cantata, but also, with the new title Steigt freudig in die Luft, as a birthday tribute to Charlotte Friederike of Anhalt-Köthen, the wife of Prince Leopold.

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October 2013

Suzuki and his singers are at ease with this carefree Bach, introducing the Quodlibet with background babble, and singing with exaggerated nasal accents...[Lunn's] lyrical, sustained aria in BWV36c is glorious. Two further high points in BWV36c are a rustic bass dance-aria and the admirable oboes d'amore and strings of the opening choral movement.

September 2013

As ever, Suzuki and colleagues are excellent, their collective experience as Bach interpreters enabling them to gel as one. You feel you are ever safe in their hands; but if you think that simply means no surprises, listen to them cut loose in the lusty Wedding Quodlibet

September 2013

I've never heard Suzuki and the Bach Collegium having so much fun...conjuring up all the merriment of slightly inebriated music-making (complete with plenty of sound effects). This is undoubtedly the most convincing and enjoyable performance of the Quodlibet, BVW524 I've heard

10th September 2013

Suzuki neither deserts seriousness for levity, nor makes something fey or whimsical of this somewhat lighter form of Bach's writing...The blend between sensitive instrumental playing and thoughtful yet never self-important singing is one of the strengths of these performances.

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