Bach / Gnann - Arranging Bach - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

J.S. Bach - Clavier-Uebung Part II [SUPER-AUDIO CD] Hybrid SACD date 03/29/2011

On Friday February 22, 2013, Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan put the final touches to what will be the 55th and last volume in their monumental series of Bach's sacred cantatas. The disc includes the last extant work by Bach in the genre Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69. The series of cantatas was initiated in 1995, as a collaboration between the Japanese musicians and the Swedish tag BIS Records, and has in the intervening years become one of the most highly respected recording projects around. The collaboration between BCJ and BIS has also included numerous other recordings, by Bach and other composers, and will continue with further Bach projects, such as secular cantatas, masses and concertos, but also with an eye to later repertoire.

?With Armide, Clorinda, Procris, Lucretia and more, heroines abound in the lyrical tragedies and cantatas of French baroque music, from Lully to Montéclair, and even in popular songs. Be they warriors or sorceresses, lovers or victims, their stories fascinated composers and audiences alike. Camille Delaforge has assembled a collection of exhilarating music, in which these extraordinary women are festooned with glory and love.