Johann Sebastian Bach - The Cantatas

50 CD - MP3 192 Kbps - 50 RAR - 6.1 Gb


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For those who are not familiar with the Bach Collegium Japan, it is an orchestra and choir founded in 1990 by their director and keyboard player Masaaki Suzuki. The orchestra is renowned as Japan’s leading period instrument players applying their historically informed knowledge of sacred baroque music and specialising in the work of J.S. Bach. The chosen venue for Suzuki’s cycle of recordings has been the Shoin Women’s University Chapel in Kobe, Japan.
Suzuki really is a master of his art directing impeccable vocal and instrumental performances.

I added to each folder the score of the cantatas and I hope this is good enough to celebrate post n° 1001. Enjoy.

contents:


Vol.1 (BWV 4, 150, 196)
Vol.2 (BWV 71, 131, 106)
Vol.3 (BWV 12, 54, 162, 182)
Vol.4 (BWV 163, 165, 185, 199)
Vol.5 (BWV 18, 143, 152, 155, 161)
Vol.6 (BWV 21, 31)
Vol.7 (BWV 61, 63, 132, 172)
Vol.8 (BWV 22, 23, 75)
Vol.9 (BWV 24, 76, 167)
Vol.10 (BWV 179, 105, 186)
Vol.11 (BWV 136, 138, 95, 46)
Vol.12 (BWV 147, 21)
Vol.13 (BWV 64, 25, 69a, 77, 50)
Vol.14 (BWV 148, 48, 89, 109)
Vol.15 (BWV 40, 60, 70, 90)
Vol.16 (BWV 194, 119)
Vol.17 (BWV 153, 154, 73, 144, 181)
Vol.18 (BWV 66, 134, 67)
Vol.19 (BWV 86, 37, 104, 166)
Vol.20 (BWV 184, 173, 59, 44)
Vol.21 (BWV 65, 81, 83, 190)
Vol.22 (BWV 20, 7, 94)
Vol.23 (BWV 10, 93, 178, 107)
Vol.24 (BWV 8, 33 and 113)
Vol.25 (BWV 78, 99 and 114)
Vol.26 (BWV 180,122 and 96)
Vol.27 (BWV 5, 80 and 115)
Vol.28 (BWV 26, 62, 116, and 129)
Vol.29 (BWV 2, 3, 38 and 135)
Vol.30 (Solo Cantatas (BWV 51 and 1127)
Vol.31 (BWV 91, 101, 121 and 133)
Vol.32 (BWV 111, 123, 124 and 125)
Vol.33 (BWV 41, 92, and 130)
Vol.34 (BWV 1, 126, and 127)
Vol.35 (BWV 74, 87, 128 and 176)
Vol.36 (BWV 42, 103, 108 and 6)
Vol.37 (BWV 169, 170, and 35)
Vol.38 (BWV 52, 82, 55 and 58)
Vol.39 (BWV 68, 175, 28, 183 and 85)
Vol.40 (BWV 137, 168, 79 and 164)
Vol.41 (BWV 56, 82, 158 and 84)
Vol.42 (BWV 72, 32, 13 and 16)
Vol.43 (BWV 110, 57 and151)
Vol.44 (BWV 146, 88 and 43)
Vol.45 (BWV 39, 187 and 129)
Vol.46 (BWV102 (BWV 102, 45, 17 and 19)
Vol.47 (BWV 36, 47 and 27)
Vol.48 (BWV 34, 117, 98 and 120)
Vol.49 (BWV 88, 156, 159 and 171)
Vol.50 (BWV 149, 145, 174 and 49)


Bach Collegium Japan
dir. Masaaki Suzuki

G.F.Handel - Arminio

2 CD - MP3 192 Kbps - RAR 209Mb


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Arminio was first performed in London in January 1737 when Handel’s rivalry with the competing ‘Opera of the Nobility’ was at its height. Three months later, exhausted, the composer suffered a breakdown in health and later left for Aachen in search of a cure. Further operas followed after his return to London but the great triumphs of earlier seasons were not to be repeated. The text of Arminio, by one of Handel’s favourite librettists, Antonio Salvi, is rather a good one; and its strong dramatic sense and above-average literary merit is matched, as usual, by some fine musical characterisation. The story concerns the German leader Hermann (Arminius) whose fight for freedom against Roman occupiers, early in the first century AD is ultimately successful. Alan Curtis and his mainly Italian ensemble Il Complesso Barocco have already provided us with the only recorded versions of Handel’s Admeto and Rodrigo. This new venture is comparably stylish, briskly moving and mainly well sung. The prevailing seriousness of the piece is established at once by its overture and by the duet of Arminius and his wife Tusnelda. But there is plenty of expressive variety and a wealth of fine arias – ‘Quella fiamma’ (Act II), with its brilliant oboe obbligato, is among the most arresting of them – the changing colours of whose music is a constant delight. Curtis directs all with rhythmic vitality.

-- Nicholas Anderson, BBC Music Magazine

cast:

Arminio, Vivica Genaux - mezzo-soprano
Tusnelda, Geraldine McGreevy - soprano
Sigismondo, Dominique Labelle - soprano
Ramise, Manuela Custer - mezzo-soprano
Varo, Luigi Petroni - tenore
Tullio, Syste Buwalda - countertenor
Segeste, Riccardo Ristori - basso

Il Complesso Barocco
dir. Alan Curtis

G.F.Handel - Arianna in Creta

3 CD - MP3 192 Kbps - RAR 265Mb


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cast:

Mata Katsuli, soprano (Arianna)
Mary-Ellen Nesi, mezzo-soprano (Teseo)
Irini Karaianni, mezzo-soprano (Carilda)
Marita Paparizou, mezzo-soprano (Tauride)
Theodora Baka, mezzo-soprano (Alceste)
Petros Magoulas, bass (Minos/ Il sonno)

Orchestra of Patras
dir. George Petrou