Browse: Bach, J S (composer), Anthems & Motets
This page lists all recordings composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
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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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J S Bach: Motets RecommendedRecorded live in London, St John’s Smith Square, 2011
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
the Monteverdi Choir can turn from Rottweiler into lamb in the blink of an eye...Some might fine Gardiner's approach theatrical; he could persuasively counter that the motets engage unflinchingly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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The Sound of the Trumpet
RecommendedPeter Hurford (organ), Alan Stringer (trumpet), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Philip Jones (trumpet), Leslie Pearson (organ)
The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Elgar...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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It’s the breadth – not just of repertoire but of sound, technique and approach – that makes it so arrestingly excellent… The musicianship here is dazzling, and nowhere more so than in Britten’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 45 & 198 & Motet 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht' RecommendedDorothee Mields (soprano), Alex Potter (counter-tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Collegium Vocale Gent. Philippe Herreweghe
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, is tailor-made for Herreweghe. No one else peels back those tactile homogeneous phrases with quite such luminosity and deep-seated finesse as Collegium Vocale. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Choral
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Stabat Mater Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor and Director), Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Theatre of Early Music
Emma Kirkby at her most serene is matched by Taylor as if they were two faces of a single musical entity. With first-rate surround-sound recording and a warm ambience, this is a disc not to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Thomas Hengelbrock conducts Zelenka, Bach & Lotti
RecommendedBalthasar Neumann Ensemble & Choir, Thomas Hengelbrock
The Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble and Choir perform with full-blooded tension; Hengelbrock makes the fullest possible use of the plangent oboes and pulsating string chords but also ensures that... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Great European Organs Vol. 95: Monastery Church, Mariannhill, Würzburg
Rudolf Müller (the Steinmeyer Organ of Monastery Church, Mariannhill, Würzburg)
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This excellent German vocal quintet presents seven of Martin Luther’s chorales in many versions, typically changing composers from one verse to the next... instrumental chorale preludes appear... — More…
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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