Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki, Masato Suzuki – Verbum caro factum est: A Christmas Greeting (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki, Masato Suzuki – Verbum caro factum est: A Christmas Greeting (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:21 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki have sung of the wonders of Christmas a number of times, in Bach’s cantatas and Christmas Oratorio as well as in Handel’s Messiah. Here, instead, we hear the choir a cappella in a selection of classic Christmas carols. Masato Suzuki, son of the ensemble’s founder and director, has selected some of the best-loved songs of Christmas, such as Adeste fideles and Silent Night, as well as less familiar hymns, arranging them especially for these singers. A consummate organist, he also performs a number of Louis-Claude Daquin’s noëls variés – keyboard variations on Christmas songs which became a highly popular genre in 18th-century France.

Tracklist:

1-01. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Verbum caro factum est (01:01)
1-02. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 1, Noël sur les jeux d’anches sans tremblant (03:45)
1-03. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir) (03:20)
1-04. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 2, Noël en dialogue, duo, trio, sur le cornet de récit, la tierce du positif et la pédalle de flûte (04:17)
1-05. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier, BWV 469 (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir) (02:32)
1-06. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 3, Noël en musette, en dialogue, et en duo (06:13)
1-07. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Silent Night, H. 145 (Arr. M. Suzuki for Voice & Choir) (03:19)
1-08. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – In dulci jubilo (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir) (01:36)
1-09. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – The First Noel (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir) (04:01)
1-10. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Festgesang, WoO 9, MWV D4: No. 2, Lied (Adap. W.H. Cummings as Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) – Verbum caro factum est [Arr. M. Suzuki for Voice & Choir] (04:42)
1-11. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Adeste fideles (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir & Organ) (02:28)
1-12. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Away in a Manger – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear – Ding, Dong! Merrily on High (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir) (03:58)
1-13. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 6, Noël sur les jeux d’anches, sans tremblant, et en duo (04:54)
1-14. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 7, Noël en trio et en dialogue, le cornet de récit de la main droite, la tierce du positif de la main gauche (03:59)
1-15. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – O Jesulein süss! O Jesulein mild! (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir) (02:53)
1-16. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 10, Noël grand jeu et duo (05:14)
1-17. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Veni, veni Emmanuel (Arr. M. Suzuki for Choir) (04:10)
1-18. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Nouveau livre de noëls, Op. 2: No. 12, Noël grand Jeu et duo “Suisse” (04:01)
1-19. Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki & Masato Suzuki – Verbum caro factum est (Arr. M. Suzuki for 3 Voices) (01:46)

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