Suzuki isn’t awed by the B Minor Mass, and he doesn’t present it as a towering, monolithic edifice. Instead, his approach is more inquisitive, exploring each movement to find its musical potential.

The hall is packed, and the stage, too, with Toronto’s Tafelmusik orchestra and choir divided into two groups, plus a children’s chorus in the balcony. Masaaki Suzuki, one of the greatest living ...

While some generous expressive effects are occasionally overdone, the fugues are projected with verve and crispness, and show Suzuki at his best This month BIS is releasing two discs of JS Bach’s ...

Conductor Masaaki Suzuki set an urgent pace while compelling performances from soloists helped pile on the tension Thirty years after he founded his groundbreaking Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki ...

Bach’s orchestral suites, or ‘ouvertures’, with multiple dance movements in the French style, were the precusor to the concerto. If you like period-instrument recordings, this album is a must. These ...

An organ from 1737 – which the composer himself might have played – reveals the full colour of his organ music in Masaaki Suzuki's new CD Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

Given our Pacific Rim cultural credibility, Los Angeles has had a puzzlingly slender connection with Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan, Asia’s leading early music ensemble. Founded by Suzuki ...

The programming and the choral singing were perfection, Suzuki's handling of the St Giles organ more ambiguous: it's always hard to tell on that instrument what's intended as rubato and what's ...

Forkel’s pioneering biography of Bach may mention a suite ‘made for an Englishman of rank’, but that is where the Englishness ends for Bach’s earliest significant dance set for keyboard. In reality, ...

Masaaki Suzuki has finally completed his project to record the complete church cantatas of JS Bach. But what has been driving this quiet Japanese musician to tackle one of the greatest achievements in ...

In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...