Tako,
>Ah, they are beautiful, but I wouldn't wish them on any tenor LOL - >Bach's writing seems almost sadistic in those arias!
Probably yes, but the first tenor aria in the St. John's Passion really blows me away (he's singing about the suffering of Jesus, I think it's the first one anyway). One night I heard Barry Banks absolutely nail that aria. By the time he finished the audience was completely silent and the group I was with was stunned. That was probably the best single performance I've ever heard.
>Now the Evangelist recitatives, on the other hand... gorgeous and such >natural writing!
Yes, but very high! I don't see how a tenor can sustain that.
Ingo
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