Robin Blaze

Nicholas Kraemer

Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment

Carolyn Sampson

Handel: Duets From the Great English Oratorios

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I: These labours past

Joshua, HWV 64, Act III: Oh peerless maid

Joshua, HWV 64, Act I: Our limpid streams

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act III: Great victor, at your feet I bow

Susanna, HWV 66, Act I: When thou art nigh

Susanna, HWV 66, Act III: To my chaste Susanna's praise

Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: To thee, thou glorious son of worth

Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: Streams of pleasure ever flowing

Solomon, HWV 67, Act I: Welcome as the dawn of day

Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: Ev'ry joy That wisdom knows

Kind health descends

Saul, HWV 53, Act II: O fairest of ten thousand fair

Deborah, HWV 51, Act I: Where do thy ardours raise me!

Deborah, HWV 51, Act II: Smiling freedom, lovely guest

Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II: Hail wedded love

Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Pt. II: Let's imitate her notes above

Esther, HWV 50b, Act II: Who calls my parting soul

Saul, HWV 53, Act II: At persecution I can laugh

Bach Collegium Japan Chorus

Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki

Robert von Bahr, CEO of BIS Records, writes of this release: “When we finished the Bach Sacred Cantatas there was an emptiness with us all participants, which was - partly - alleviated by the fact that there were several records of secular Cantatas still to be recorded. And now we are at the bitter end of those as well, and there are no more Bach Cantatas to be recorded. After 23 years of a steady diet of Bach Cantatas, to be without them is brutal and cruel. All the better, then, that we have finished on a high point. Carolyn Sampson’s singing in the solo cantata BWV 204 beggars belief - it is as close to Heaven one can hope to come on this Earth. Big words, and yet too small for what she does. This is the crowning glory of a series that has transformed my life and given me so much more fulfillment that I could possibly have hoped for. Thank you, Masaaki and your faithful BCJ, for creating a musical treasure possible to be treasured by a grateful mankind.”


Handel: Duets From the Great English Oratorios

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