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The third volume in an ongoing series of Bach's Organ Works, performed by the great Masaaki Suzuki. Since founding Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, Masaaki Suzuki has established himself as a Born in Kobe, Masaaki Suzuki began working as a church organist at the age of twelve. He studied the organ under Tsuguo Hirono at the Tokyo University of the Arts, going on to the Sweelinck Academy in Amsterdam in 1979. There he studied the harpsichord under Ton Koopman and the organ under Piet Kee, graduating with a soloist’s diploma in both instruments. In 1990 Masaaki Suzuki founded the Bach Collegium Japan, with which he embarked on a series of recordings of J. S. Bach’s cantatas. His impressive discography on the BIS label has brought him many critical plaudits, and he is regularly invited to work with renowned period ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Baroque. His recordings of Bach’s music for solo keyboard have won great acclaim, and the first volume of his series of the composer’s organ works was named Recording of the Month in Gramophone and Instrumental Choice of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, and awarded a Diapason d’Or in Diapason.