Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Birthday-Boy Bach & Cantata Diversity

…If you love Bach above all (and what better time to admit it than on his birthday?), you’ll love his Cantatas best. All 200-some of them. And once you know them well, you will love the variety of the many differently excellent Cantata recordings: Swift Suzuki, balanced Koopman, punchy Kuijken, delightful Herreweghe, old-fashioned Rilling, musical Richter… you get the idea. “Better” or “best” doesn’t enter into it; everyone brings something to the table. That’s why a new cantata cycle is so exciting and delightful—and thanks be to St. Gallen’s Bach Foundation which …

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Birthday-Boy Bach & Cantata Diversity

J.S.Bach, Cantatas vol.13, Cantatas BWV 20, 13, 103, Orchestra and Chorus of the St.Gallen Bach Foundation, Rudolf Lutz (director), J.S.Bach-Stiftung St.Gallen