Wunderschöne Aufnahme, alle Beteiligte bestens! Überragender Daniel Johannsen, allein dessen Mimik zaubert eine wunderbare Stimmung und Überraschungen, bei 21:55 umwerfend!
I don't know about this special work, but the strings, on the other hand, would have to be doubled (except the violone), according to Bach's "Entwurff". A splendid performance, nevertheless.
The question of how many singers Bach wanted in the choruses of his sacred works is the most contentious issue in Bach scholarship and has been for 40 years. It's certain that the absolute maximum he could have used was three singers per each part (including the soloists). The biggest single piece of evidence that he used only one singer on each part is the fact that the surviving performing parts for his works usually only include one part for each voice, and it is not big enough for two or three singers to share (especially since it's handwritten and would have to be read by candlelight for much of the year). Only about a dozen of the sacred works for which original performing materials survive include parts (or indications in the score if that's all we now have) for even a second singer on each voice. There are only two of those works -- Wir danken dir (BWV 29) and the St. John Passion -- for which those second voice parts have the singers singing throughout every chorus; all the others have the second set of singers singing some sections and not others. Here's a good explanation of the issues: ruclips.net/video/sgjbBuUwmO8/видео.html.
Personally I like the small numbers. There seems to me to be a clarity and purity of sound, especially when hearing recordings of Bach's works from the fifties and sixties with choruses of one hundred plus. This pared back version is like an old Masters painting that has been cleaned up after years/decades of grime and pollution have scarred the oil and so now, you see what the artist originally painted. Hearing this with these forces to me is a lot clearer and I hear the music much better especially Bach's harmonies in the Alto and Tenor lines.
Todas las ovejas con el bozal bien puesto, Los pastores serán crueles mientras las ovejas sean estúpidas.Fray Luis de leon Cuenca belmonte Magnífica música, se me olvidaba. FELIZ DIA.
Sehr angenehm , daß kein Applaus diese himmlische Musik erschlagen hat !
thank you very much every distinct voice is a masterpiece
Magnifique Kyrie avec notamment la flutiste Charlotte d'Ornellas qui se distingue aussi ailleurs.
Wunderschöne Aufnahme, alle Beteiligte bestens! Überragender Daniel Johannsen, allein dessen Mimik zaubert eine wunderbare Stimmung und Überraschungen, bei 21:55 umwerfend!
Enhorabuena!!!
beautiful. love it so much.
Great! Beautiful!
Maravilloso!!
Is the work originally written for a chorus (instead of soloists? ) But anyways it's a very beautiful work which is beautifully performed!!!
I don't know about this special work, but the strings, on the other hand, would have to be doubled (except the violone), according to Bach's "Entwurff". A splendid performance, nevertheless.
The question of how many singers Bach wanted in the choruses of his sacred works is the most contentious issue in Bach scholarship and has been for 40 years.
It's certain that the absolute maximum he could have used was three singers per each part (including the soloists).
The biggest single piece of evidence that he used only one singer on each part is the fact that the surviving performing parts for his works usually only include one part for each voice, and it is not big enough for two or three singers to share (especially since it's handwritten and would have to be read by candlelight for much of the year). Only about a dozen of the sacred works for which original performing materials survive include parts (or indications in the score if that's all we now have) for even a second singer on each voice. There are only two of those works -- Wir danken dir (BWV 29) and the St. John Passion -- for which those second voice parts have the singers singing throughout every chorus; all the others have the second set of singers singing some sections and not others.
Here's a good explanation of the issues: ruclips.net/video/sgjbBuUwmO8/видео.html.
Here is a perfect example when only one singer performs each part ruclips.net/video/Ek3dz2hh8vk/видео.htmlsi=fLo8SAW4uSm_Wm-J
Personally I like the small numbers. There seems to me to be a clarity and purity of sound, especially when hearing recordings of Bach's works from the fifties and sixties with choruses of one hundred plus. This pared back version is like an old Masters painting that has been cleaned up after years/decades of grime and pollution have scarred the oil and so now, you see what the artist originally painted.
Hearing this with these forces to me is a lot clearer and I hear the music much better especially Bach's harmonies in the Alto and Tenor lines.
Todas las ovejas con el bozal bien puesto,
Los pastores serán crueles mientras las ovejas sean estúpidas.Fray Luis de leon Cuenca belmonte
Magnífica música, se me olvidaba.
FELIZ DIA.