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Masaaki Suzuki on returning to Bach's St Matthew Passion

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
Episode • Feb 13, 2020 • 14m

Twenty five years after his first recording for BIS of JS Bach's St Matthew Passion, Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan have taken the work into the studio for a second time, and a magnificent achievement it proves. James Jolly met up with Suzuki when he was in London recently, working with students at the Royal Academy of Music.