As the proud owner of around 250
recordings of Bach cantatas, I really, really do not need yet more.
However, I bought a CD of two more Bach cantatas — secular
cantatas, this time — and so enjoyed the two works … that I have
now ordered six more secular cantatas. All feature the incomparable
Masaaki Suzuki with his Bach Collegium Japan. The first CD of
this batch that I bought has Carolyn Sampson as the soprano
soloist, and I greatly welcome more recordings with Ms Sampson. She
sings Ich bin in mir Vergnügt BWV 204 beautifully.
The words / libretti for almost all
vocal music before Mozart are usually banal. I can never take to the
words of Bach's church cantatas: “I long to die, so I can see Jesus
again” and similar religious hocus-pocus. So the secular Bach
cantatas make a very welcome change for me. Well done Johann
Sebastian, and Masaaki Suzuki, and the BIS record company that year
after year has supported Suzuki and his fine Japanese musicians.
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