"Schön, wie Masaaki Suzuki die vermeintlich humorigen Klippen der Bauernkantate umschifft, an denen schon zahlreiche Aufnahmen zerschellt sind ... Die bei der Gesamteinspielung der geistliche Kantaten gewonnene Erfahrung kommt der italienischen Kantate "Non sa, che sia dolore" sehr zugute, deren affekte exakt auf den Punkt gebrach werden"

"Suzuki gets into the swing of this burlesque immediately with deft timing, organic contrasts of bucolic temperament and a winning characterisation of the 'base and popular' viewed through a courtly prism. The director's own keyboard playing adds to the intimate and rolling spontaneity, surely Bach's most tantalising example of what opera might have afforded him ... The performance as a whole marks out another fine BCJ production"

" A pair of Italian-language arias, also fairly rare, and appropriate sound from Tokyo's Hajuku Hall round out a typically attractive entry in Suzuki's series."

"The two voices are ideally cast. Mieke (Mojca Erdmann) sings with a charming simplicity as she resists and then gives way to the advances of her rustic beau, Dominik Wörner. He sings with great character, a mischievous inner grin seeming to colour his tone and clarify his diction ... And highly virtuosic and largely independent harpsichord obbligato, played with stirring bravura"