Bach Collegium Japan

Carolyn Sampson, soprano | Alexander Chance, countertenor | Benjamin Bruns, tenor | Christian Immler, bass

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

PROGRAMME

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20 / Cantata Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94 / Cantata Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 93 / Cantata Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 

In 1990 the organist and harpsichordist Masaaki Suzuki created the Bach Collegium Japan to introduce the Japanese public to performances of Baroque music on period instruments. Almost 35 years later, the Bach Collegium Japan is one of the most acclaimed orchestras specialising in Bach's music. It presents itself for the first time at the Torroella de Montgrí Festival with a monograph of Bach's religious cantatas, the complete works of which it recorded between 1995 and 2013, and which make up half of the orchestra's discography, comprising more than a hundred discs.