This whole clip radiates beauty.From the great dignity of Harnencourt's conducting, to the handsome gamba player, his even more handsome playing, as for the boy....I sobbed at the divinity of it all.The setting.Those beautiful young choiresters.The whole atmosphere pullulating with beauty and divinity.What an antidote to the ugliness of the world as it is with nothing but folly all around.
El placer que se siente al escuchar a este niño, especialmente, cantar es enorme y llega profundamente su voz hermosa y casi perfecta. Lo mismo sucede con los demás. Ver además la seriedad y disciplina de todos es un espectáculo refrescante y que conmueve.
@bonazeta - quella di Scholl è l'unica esecuzione disponibile che supera quella di Panito Iconomou ma Scholl ha altri mezzi vocali. Notavo comunque che anche lui è riuscito ad avere una certa freschezza solo nelle esecuzioni giovanili. Già nelle esibizioni con Koopman la voce non era più così pulita.
There are many great recordings you can listen to on Youtube. They are all wonderful. However, there are but a handful that are stellar, devine in the true sense. This is one of them.
Very Beautifull! Grab your chance to attend Bach's St. John Passion - April 9 and 10, Westerkerk Amsterdam - Ton Koopman Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. Tickets still available!
The DVD of this performance of the St. Johns Passion deserves to be purchased. Not only due to the excellent singing of Iconomou but to Immler and Helmut Wittek (sopranoboy) too.
Bem, como você deve saber, a Paixão de S. João é a liturgia mais longa e mais bonita da Igreja. Essa ária é parte da Paixão segundo São João, que Bach musicou.
Quando Panito Iconomou cantou essa ária, havia perdido o pai há duas semanas, salvo engano.
O regente do Tolzer chorou. Não foi à toa. Creio que essa é simplesmente a melhor ária que se tem registro.
Quando Panito cantou essa ária, seu pai havia morrido há dias.
Como você deve saber, a Paixão Segundo S. João é da liturgia da Páscoa, a mais longa, mais bonita e mais importante da Igreja. Assim, "está consumado" segue com o trecho "der Held aus Juda siegt mit Macht, und schließt den Kampf".
Que coincidência... A dimensão trágica, o elemento pueril, a beleza da voz, o choro do regente (do Tolzer) ao final da ária. Tudo contribui para que essa seja a melhor ária já registrada.
Quando Panito cantou essa ária, seu pai havia morrido há dias.
Como você deve saber, a Paixão Segundo S. João é da liturgia da Páscoa, a mais longa, mais bonita e mais importante da Igreja. Assim, "está consumado" segue com o trecho "der Held aus Juda siegt mit Macht, und schließt den Kampf".
Que coincidência. A dimensão trágica, o elemento pueril, a beleza da voz, o choro do regente (do Tolzer) ao final da ária. Tudo contribui para que essa seja a melhor ária já registrada.
Quando Panito cantou essa ária, seu pai havia morrido há dias. Como você deve saber, a Paixão Segundo S. João é da liturgia da Páscoa, a mais longa, mais bonita e mais importante da Igreja. Assim, "está consumado" segue com o trecho "der Held aus Juda siegt mit Macht, und schließt den Kampf".
Que coincidência. A dimensão trágica, o elemento pueril, a beleza da voz, o choro do regente (do Tolzer) ao final da ária. Tudo contribui para que essa seja a melhor ária já registrada.
No se cuantas veces he visto este video pero el silencio atenuante desde la voz al violocello te hace meditar ,te hace tener respeto y te lleva de nuevo al niño,equilibrado sin cargar demasiado para cantar a todos y en guardia a los sonidos envolventes puedes dibujarlo y sentirlo que ya esta cerca la Luz....Menudos interpretes pasará a la historia...Gracias.
i really enjoy the disparity between the boy's face in utter agony and the unbelievably gorgeous sounds coming out of his mouth ; p boy needs to learn how to control his facial expression ; p
@ leftofmonalisa Han hade en riktigt hård tid när han sjöng den här . Med en familytragedie . Hans far hade just dött. Och låten påminner honom om hans far. Därför har han såg ledsen ut !
@leftofmonalisa: I must disagree with your comment. A good singer knows how to use facial expressions. The boy was singing the words of Christ as He was about to die on the cross; an expression of agony is thus quite appropriate.
I can only say yet again that this voice surpasses all understanding. It is perfect in tone, timbre and control - and in every way! I still have the video I recorded (by chance) in the month of the original performance and must now find the DVD you all talk about. But thanks for posting this and other clips from the same memorable night!
As Panito puts it in an interview:"If I had to describe my life as a boy alto of the TK (Tölzer Knabenchor), I would choose this aria. It was definitely the climax of my career. One of only a handful of occasions I can recall, where everything felt right, with my performance, the other musicians and the reaction from the audience."
Panito Iconomou is one of a kind. Who listens to his recordings recognizes immediately: He is not just a wonderful boy alto; He is simply one of the best singers ever recording music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Sometime in the 80's, and more or less by mistake, I recorded this concert on VCR. Ever since, this particular alto solo and that of Panito's colleague, Christian Immler, as well as the chorus "Lasset uns den nicht zerteilen" have given countless hours of pleasure. What truly extraordinary and note-perfect alto voices they once were, and how great it is that the concert was professionally recored and preserved for all to enjoy! Is there a CD or DVD, I wonder?
The recording was re-issued as a DVD by Deutsche Grammaphon (Unitel Classica) and is still available. I saw this clip on YouTube so many times I felt morally obliged to buy the DVD - highly recommended. :)
I cordially share your opinion !!! Everybody is focussed on and filled with bewilderment by the incredibly dazzling and mature voice of the young Panito Iconomou, however, meanwhile the unequalled performance of Christophe Coin is easily forgotten and they both realise one of the most poignant performances of this amazing piece of music
Der Junge singt das mit einer beeindruckenden Intensität. Kein Vergleich mit allen Altistinnen, die ich je mit dieser Partie gehört habe... - wundervoll!
notice in the back in the beginning that Barbara Schmidt-Gade can see his pain of his singingi can tell because she kept looking at him instead of the book. it seems like she was the only one other then us that notices it. did her and panito have some sort of realtion?
Wow, I didn't know this fact. Without any doubt this makes his pain more real. I can't understand how he was able to sing precisely those lyrics in that situation. BRAVO.
Thank you, bran4805! This is a remarkable enregistrement (? french; shooting?). I love it. I sang the Johannespassion in 1975 in Strasbourg when I was young. This is a delightful souvenir at those wonderful days and this marvelous music .
the instrument is not a cello, but a viola da gamba, which sometimes is seven stringed. remember the film the 7th string about the composer saint colombe featuring gerard depardieu
you are right! in german the film was called 'die siebente saite' (the 7th string) but in french it was 'tous les matins du monde' and in english 'all the world's mornings' it didn't think about that
I guess Panito´s father died 2 weeks before this performance... and it´s easter, Christ Passion... and... "die Trauernacht" when the souls of ancient saints from jewish people were rescued by King of Juda... it´s perfect! :-)
The bass soloist is Robert Holl. The DVD of Bach's Johannes- Passion is from Deutsche Grammophon - you should have no trouble finding it in good record shops, or try Amazon.
I have been collecting recordings of solo boys singing for many years and never cease to be amazed at what they can achieve. Even so, there are few moments of such transcendent beauty as this. "Awesome" is a much over used word, but it applies here.
I just wonder if there ever sung a boy my favourite alto aria from Bach "Erbarme dich" (St. Matthew Passion) - until now I jsut heard women and countertenors singing this aria ... I'm sure, this Boy could have sung it!
There are very few 11 or 12 year old boys who can sing Bach arias really well. When they can, the result is magnificent - for example Sebastian Hennig on the Teldec cantata recordings. Puberty occurred much later in the 18th century, and Bach's boy sopranos and altos could have been as old as 16 or 17.
yes I know, that puberty was later - but even today some boys are lucky and have a unchanged voice until they are 14 or 15. panito was 14, when he sung this ...
According to Daw's 1974 article in Human Biology, which is based on the Thomasschule records, the average age for a boy's voice to change in Bach's time was 16.5/17 years. That means that there would have been some male sopranos nearer 19 or 20. They would have had enough training and experience to sing the really difficult arias.
Hennig was ace, but a bit breathy to my ears... I have a recording of Hennig and Rene Jacobs doing the Pergolesi Stabat Mater.
Better than Hennig is Peter Jelosits, from the same series, who is credited with the bulk of NH's solos from 41-68, and is probably the uncredited boy from the WSK in the earlier cantatas. The clear tone, accurate tuning etc is all there, but it sounds a younger voice.
This is so beautiful. A fantastic performance of a great piece of music. I'm not religious but it strikes me that some of the greatest pieces of music have been written to the Glory of God.
il regazzino è perfetto: i migliori colori femminili e i migliori maschili, o meglio nel non definibile c'è tutto. credo che sei mesi dopo non abbia potuto cantare più niente del genere, stato di grazia di certi periodi della vita.
This is an absolutely devastating performance. As he starts the aria his is a face of desolation - and having read what he'd just been through I can understand why so much was being channelled into this performance. Look at the way the boys around keep their heads right down. They know what he is going through. But, none of this detracts from his performance; rather it serves - almost as an act of dedication - to enhance its thorough professionalism.
This was the reason for me to join youtube. I like Bach, even his sacral works in contrary to other musicians. His music is a drug. I need it to concentrate myself on working no matter whether in my research ormy paintings. But Panito and McCoin must have been sent from Jesus himself otherwise I can not explain myself this absolute masterpiece of an aria's performance. That happens to me, an convinced atheist!
Because I love the music of the barock era and especially this one from John Sebastian since I was 10 and also myself took part in his christmas oratorium with our schoolbys choir.
I, too, am an atheist who LOVES Bach's music, including the passions and sacred cantatas. There are uncountable masterpieces that are extremely varied and moving. The sounds, textures, colors, rhythms, melodies, and texts all combine in these great works.
This is a great and unique voice. The color he achieves, the darkness of timbre in his lower register - the whole tessitura is perfect, frankly - is incomparable to either counter-tenor or contralto voicings - and I love those, too. Panito's few offerings on the Leonhard complete Bach cantatas are godlike. Check out his recit, Gelobet sei dir Herr Gott Israel (BWV 167), moving, technically masterful.
now i'm not a big music person, my friend just showed me this because this is what she hasta learn for one of her classes, but i just really need to comment on this.
i know virtually nothing about this type of music, but i can tell that this kid is AMAZING at what he's doing, and i thought it sounded wonderful. =D i'm glad to hear that he was able to continue on w/ his wonderful voice and keep it as he got older =)
An adult countertenor has lot more experience and better techique. But on the other hand here we have full voiced singing, the voice has lot of colour and emotion. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against countertenors.
that's why I said he's got a long way to go. I think he will benefit more from critical opinions than mere congratulations. I think he needs to put more his own understanding and emotion into singing, that's what will make him stand out from the crowd
So what about this guy's performance? Sure, it sounds technically polished and very uniform in tone, but that's not everything. Panito's voice is more textured, and I like his vibrato. As I say, it's all a matter of personal opinion. Sure, training-wise, the boy has room to advance. But the performance is more heartfelt; more communicative. That matters a great deal to me as a listener.
Yes, I agree. in a intervju Panito talked about this performence and he told taht his father just had died some weeks before this performence, and he was thinking about his father when he was singing this. So thats why its so emotiinell
Yes he has. he is a operasinger now. And comes back to the choir sometimes to sing for exampel in Bachs Weichnachtoratorium. Look at the Videoresponses to the right on this video and you will see and hear him as adult singer.
It is finished. O comfort of suffering souls. The night of sorrow now counts its final hour. The hero from Judah mightily wins and brings the strife to its close. It is finished.
(Ref. to John 19:30: "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.")
Meine Güte! Ich habe kein Wort!!! Normal, dass Nikolaus Harnoncourt und Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden in diesem Konzert zutiefst gerührt waren. Ich hätte gewollt, dabei gewesen zu sein!!! Wie kann ein vierzehnjähriger Knabe sooo gut singen und ausdrücken, die Musik auf dieser Weise fühlen, seine eigenen Trilli mit herrvorragendem guten Geschmack erfinden, dass er seine Lehrer ständig überraschte...? Ja, er war Panito Iconomou und ein Tölzer, damit ist alles gesagt.
Whow, it´s wonderful! I´ve heard it this afternoon many times, some minutes ago I ordered the DVD via amazon. Thank you so much for posting this video with this wonderful music.
brilliant voice from Kurt Equiluz, the boy is good but has to work to get the brilliance in the future.....good sound of the viol....
Tenorlyrico89 1 month ago
how mature and sensitive the boy sings
RIBALALTIST 1 month ago
beautiful
RIBALALTIST 1 month ago
I want to hear more of Robert Holl.
theshitaIker 1 month ago
This whole clip radiates beauty.From the great dignity of Harnencourt's conducting, to the handsome gamba player, his even more handsome playing, as for the boy....I sobbed at the divinity of it all.The setting.Those beautiful young choiresters.The whole atmosphere pullulating with beauty and divinity.What an antidote to the ugliness of the world as it is with nothing but folly all around.
TheSmoshmy 3 months ago 2
14 people have no soul, apparently.
drperm1 4 months ago 3
Jesus! Der Junge ist außergewöhnlich!
Azpatix 6 months ago
El placer que se siente al escuchar a este niño, especialmente, cantar es enorme y llega profundamente su voz hermosa y casi perfecta. Lo mismo sucede con los demás. Ver además la seriedad y disciplina de todos es un espectáculo refrescante y que conmueve.
Gracias bran 4805.
runofear 7 months ago
Unglaublich! So wunderschön!
cavalleriarusticable 7 months ago
incrível a voz desse menino
pirarucu72 9 months ago
og my God!!i cant close my mouth!!!!
dulCISSIMA1 9 months ago 3
Musica delle Sfere VIDEO response: Johannes Passion, Ton Koopman- Es ist Vollbracht- Andreas Scholl
youtu .be/oe37hkyo19E --
bonazeta 9 months ago
@bonazeta - quella di Scholl è l'unica esecuzione disponibile che supera quella di Panito Iconomou ma Scholl ha altri mezzi vocali. Notavo comunque che anche lui è riuscito ad avere una certa freschezza solo nelle esecuzioni giovanili. Già nelle esibizioni con Koopman la voce non era più così pulita.
omoetamo 8 months ago
Sehr schön!
Jawstaysun 9 months ago
There are many great recordings you can listen to on Youtube. They are all wonderful. However, there are but a handful that are stellar, devine in the true sense. This is one of them.
voltamore 10 months ago 3
Very Beautifull! Grab your chance to attend Bach's St. John Passion - April 9 and 10, Westerkerk Amsterdam - Ton Koopman Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. Tickets still available!
TiaSchutrups 10 months ago
Wundervoll!
LisaKratnirk 10 months ago
The DVD of this performance of the St. Johns Passion deserves to be purchased. Not only due to the excellent singing of Iconomou but to Immler and Helmut Wittek (sopranoboy) too.
ichmalealsobinich 11 months ago
What an incredible piece of music and what an incredible interpretation and musical rendering!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
VernonVince 11 months ago
What a beauty, whit this gamba player you can only can sing beautifull. What a gift, and the boy o my he sings like a angel. Thank you for this music
Ramakrishnademeester 11 months ago
потрясающе,нет слов.браво-оооо!!!!
MrRudolfshnaps 1 year ago
Jesus!! O muleque é perfeito!!! Ameiiiiiiii!!! Isso que é começar cedo e bem!! Bach é o maior!!! Sempre!!!!
IngridCariello 1 year ago
@IngridCariello
Oi Ingrid,
Bem, como você deve saber, a Paixão de S. João é a liturgia mais longa e mais bonita da Igreja. Essa ária é parte da Paixão segundo São João, que Bach musicou.
Quando Panito Iconomou cantou essa ária, havia perdido o pai há duas semanas, salvo engano.
O regente do Tolzer chorou. Não foi à toa. Creio que essa é simplesmente a melhor ária que se tem registro.
rhminoda 1 year ago
@IngridCariello
Quando Panito cantou essa ária, seu pai havia morrido há dias.
Como você deve saber, a Paixão Segundo S. João é da liturgia da Páscoa, a mais longa, mais bonita e mais importante da Igreja. Assim, "está consumado" segue com o trecho "der Held aus Juda siegt mit Macht, und schließt den Kampf".
Que coincidência... A dimensão trágica, o elemento pueril, a beleza da voz, o choro do regente (do Tolzer) ao final da ária. Tudo contribui para que essa seja a melhor ária já registrada.
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@IngridCariello
Quando Panito cantou essa ária, seu pai havia morrido há dias.
Como você deve saber, a Paixão Segundo S. João é da liturgia da Páscoa, a mais longa, mais bonita e mais importante da Igreja. Assim, "está consumado" segue com o trecho "der Held aus Juda siegt mit Macht, und schließt den Kampf".
Que coincidência. A dimensão trágica, o elemento pueril, a beleza da voz, o choro do regente (do Tolzer) ao final da ária. Tudo contribui para que essa seja a melhor ária já registrada.
rhminoda 1 year ago
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@IngridCariello
Quando Panito cantou essa ária, seu pai havia morrido há dias. Como você deve saber, a Paixão Segundo S. João é da liturgia da Páscoa, a mais longa, mais bonita e mais importante da Igreja. Assim, "está consumado" segue com o trecho "der Held aus Juda siegt mit Macht, und schließt den Kampf".
Que coincidência. A dimensão trágica, o elemento pueril, a beleza da voz, o choro do regente (do Tolzer) ao final da ária. Tudo contribui para que essa seja a melhor ária já registrada.
rhminoda 1 year ago
unvorstellbar. da fehlen einem die worte...
TheAnuntiata 1 year ago
I am in love with the cellist.Boy is perfect.
Siberiaeterna 1 year ago 7
@Siberiaeterna Harnoncourt, the cellist, the boy---amazing
AbsGuy 1 year ago
No se cuantas veces he visto este video pero el silencio atenuante desde la voz al violocello te hace meditar ,te hace tener respeto y te lleva de nuevo al niño,equilibrado sin cargar demasiado para cantar a todos y en guardia a los sonidos envolventes puedes dibujarlo y sentirlo que ya esta cerca la Luz....Menudos interpretes pasará a la historia...Gracias.
Twjdfa 1 year ago
This boy made a Bach Fan out of me!
sLaerchen 1 year ago
Wonderful interpretation!
Anababe111 1 year ago
without words...
arthurssilveira 1 year ago
Bach did a magnificent and perfect creation here
leoufdu38 1 year ago
i really enjoy the disparity between the boy's face in utter agony and the unbelievably gorgeous sounds coming out of his mouth ; p boy needs to learn how to control his facial expression ; p
leftofmonalisa 1 year ago
@ leftofmonalisa Han hade en riktigt hård tid när han sjöng den här . Med en familytragedie . Hans far hade just dött. Och låten påminner honom om hans far. Därför har han såg ledsen ut !
Zerlina12 1 year ago
@leftofmonalisa: I must disagree with your comment. A good singer knows how to use facial expressions. The boy was singing the words of Christ as He was about to die on the cross; an expression of agony is thus quite appropriate.
albanman 11 months ago
@unethicaldenier WHAT!? Seriously, what the hell? Take your crazy ass politics somewhere else.
katebushboi 1 year ago 2
Absolutely sublime. What a singer. The gambist is superb. Wow.
sophelet 1 year ago
I can only say yet again that this voice surpasses all understanding. It is perfect in tone, timbre and control - and in every way! I still have the video I recorded (by chance) in the month of the original performance and must now find the DVD you all talk about. But thanks for posting this and other clips from the same memorable night!
strachs100 1 year ago
noooo see paaaseeen de...q v...se eschuuuuuchaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
humberto1211 1 year ago
What a wonderful voice of this boy!!!! bravissimo
raquelnog06 1 year ago
A peerless performance!
Godislove67 1 year ago
la più bella esecuzione disponibile su youtube e forse la più bella tra quelle registrate!
omoetamo 1 year ago
Extraordinaria. Una de las más bellas versiones interpretadas. Genial Panito.
FRUIZable 1 year ago
Es ist echter Wahnsinn - high emotional culture.
Averroes1126 1 year ago
Again, I love it!
Averroes1126 1 year ago
Beautiful viola da gamba, have you seen it's head? (Schnecke)
ElisabettaVS 1 year ago
3:35 :D
emmizbsb 1 year ago
@trotskyfication a bass viola da gamba. it is a french 7 string gamba. a consort gamba has 6 strings
thurlcello 1 year ago
Mein Gott! Usually this is performed by a 40 year old female alto or mezzosoprano. This is like Kevin in Sin City. No offense.
huubi72 1 year ago
Perfekt! Harmonium-Kurt ist ohnehin der Hero, wunderbar der Alto und die Gambe!!!!!
nisanus 1 year ago
As Panito puts it in an interview:"If I had to describe my life as a boy alto of the TK (Tölzer Knabenchor), I would choose this aria. It was definitely the climax of my career. One of only a handful of occasions I can recall, where everything felt right, with my performance, the other musicians and the reaction from the audience."
This is a fantastic video! Thanks...
BKgaard 1 year ago 8
amazing singing - what a voice !
ferreltr 1 year ago
The St. Matthew is better, but I agree very good soloist.
TheHugfish 1 year ago
Touching!!
Toscavsky 1 year ago
............ so beautiful.!
Monamourchka 1 year ago
Panito Iconomou is one of a kind. Who listens to his recordings recognizes immediately: He is not just a wonderful boy alto; He is simply one of the best singers ever recording music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
voltamore 1 year ago 6
What a beautiful voice!
DavesTrumpet 1 year ago 4
That kid has an amazing voice
Bachmania28 1 year ago 5
lindo lindo lindo,perfeito
l0lit0 1 year ago
Das klingt wunderschön!!!!
Die Solisten sind wirklich ausgezeichnet.
missblendi 1 year ago
that cellist next to him has an endpin!
histerics3 1 year ago
Absolutely wonderful. The violagambist is incredible!
pianistaeli 1 year ago 3
Panajotis N. Iconomou was born in Germany May 22, 1971. In Tölzer Knabenchor 1984-1988.
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I only watch the part where they sing "sprach er" and then the base- "es ist vollbracht." the rest is shite.
thecritiquevirtuoso 2 years ago
Sometime in the 80's, and more or less by mistake, I recorded this concert on VCR. Ever since, this particular alto solo and that of Panito's colleague, Christian Immler, as well as the chorus "Lasset uns den nicht zerteilen" have given countless hours of pleasure. What truly extraordinary and note-perfect alto voices they once were, and how great it is that the concert was professionally recored and preserved for all to enjoy! Is there a CD or DVD, I wonder?
strachs100 2 years ago 2
The recording was re-issued as a DVD by Deutsche Grammaphon (Unitel Classica) and is still available. I saw this clip on YouTube so many times I felt morally obliged to buy the DVD - highly recommended. :)
kuip2753 2 years ago 2
Thank you for that info. I am off to the shops!
strachs100 1 year ago
@kuip2753 excellent! thanks for the tip.
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Skurefille,
I cordially share your opinion !!! Everybody is focussed on and filled with bewilderment by the incredibly dazzling and mature voice of the young Panito Iconomou, however, meanwhile the unequalled performance of Christophe Coin is easily forgotten and they both realise one of the most poignant performances of this amazing piece of music
baroqueonaute 2 years ago
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baroqueonaute 2 years ago
Who is really professional here is the player of the viola da gamba. Just FIRST CLASS!!
skurefille 2 years ago 2
oh my god, such a beutiful voice!
emmizbsb 2 years ago
Did he keep on singing through puberty?
Akee1990 2 years ago
yes, he's a bass now
Emilmt 2 years ago
My God, for a boy soloist he has incredible color in his voice. I can feel passion and sorrow in his every note!
Totally professional, and I don't say that often!
ufayad 2 years ago
Quisiera comprar la obra en Cd. Esta versión. Cómo es la covertura-tapa y cuál es el sello?
jrohdenbur 2 years ago
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Allatoja 2 years ago
Danke! Großartig, fast übermenschlich schön.
Averroes1126 2 years ago
@DerSpiegelsaal : Because after this aria the choir will sing
Zerlina12 2 years ago
Knabenalt und viola da Gamba sind ein fach ein Duo! Die Klangfarben passen wie nichts anderes zueinander.
Glaukope 2 years ago 3
wirklich wunderschön :) ich mag Bach
marien2805 2 years ago
One of the best boy soloists I've ever heard!
Dougie11387 2 years ago 62
@Dougie11387 THE best
laughne 1 year ago
@Dougie11387 : It's true!!!
omoetamo 1 year ago
@Dougie11387 back in the olden days they woulda chopped his nutz off.
Pablolaguerra 1 year ago
As beautiful as anything I have ever heard.
dogisgreat1 2 years ago 7
Der Junge singt das mit einer beeindruckenden Intensität. Kein Vergleich mit allen Altistinnen, die ich je mit dieser Partie gehört habe... - wundervoll!
floria79 2 years ago 37
Kann ich nur zustimmen. Ziemlich eindrucksvoll was der da abliefert. Seit ich diese Aufnahme gehört habe, bin ich beeindruckt von der Arie!
sLaerchen 2 years ago
@floria79 Genau meine Meinung! Ganz toll!
Conny1908 1 year ago
notice in the back in the beginning that Barbara Schmidt-Gade can see his pain of his singingi can tell because she kept looking at him instead of the book. it seems like she was the only one other then us that notices it. did her and panito have some sort of realtion?
myciel32 2 years ago
Thank you bran4805, each of your postings make me so happy!... Everyone here love this videos! Thank you again
tattaglia 2 years ago
They can play this at my funeral. It's as if all the cares of the world are washed away.
telephilia 2 years ago 2
He has such a painful expression in his face. The singing is WONDERFUL!!!!
asisecanta 2 years ago 3
Yes he has. He lost his father some weeks before this recording
Zerlina12 2 years ago 3
Wow, I didn't know this fact. Without any doubt this makes his pain more real. I can't understand how he was able to sing precisely those lyrics in that situation. BRAVO.
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haha his teeth are still to big for his head xD
CludzyMasta 2 years ago
That was really a stupid thing too say. Grow up!
Zerlina12 2 years ago 7
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Oh it is just a bit of humour :)
CludzyMasta 2 years ago
Thank you, bran4805! This is a remarkable enregistrement (? french; shooting?). I love it. I sang the Johannespassion in 1975 in Strasbourg when I was young. This is a delightful souvenir at those wonderful days and this marvelous music .
Memale2009 2 years ago
Just wonderful! :)
Lantiel 2 years ago 3
It's just a miracle !
Thanks to Panito, Christophe, Nikolaus ..... and Johan Sebastien !
drustan2 2 years ago 3
спасибо герхарду шмидт-гадену за целую плеяду прекрасных исполнителей. вообще тольцеры это что-то!
viktorNY1 2 years ago 2
шикарный альт. один из лучших за 20 век
viktorNY1 2 years ago
wunderschon!
sagt den alten
kohlbrugge
kohlbrugge 2 years ago
you have to search at 'amazon'...
"bach"
and
"passion" ...
many results....
arnolfini26 2 years ago
no- he sings in german! :o)
Es ist vollbracht,
o Trost vor die gekränkten Seelen,
die Trauernacht
lässt nun die letzte Stunde zählen,
der Held aus Juda siegt mit Macht
und schliesst den Kampf.
Es ist vollbracht.
arnolfini26 2 years ago
is this latin? is there any album for this?
AlexHwang90 2 years ago
German. This is not a mass but an oratorio.
Tomsenior 2 years ago 3
Es ist vollbracht. Ich danke Dir mit Tränen in meine Augen.
Papa Jukka
Peaveli 2 years ago
w0w i love these music, is really relax
monztita17 2 years ago
epic win
urbanvolta 2 years ago
ive never seen a 7 string cello before
lukphonp 2 years ago
the instrument is not a cello, but a viola da gamba, which sometimes is seven stringed. remember the film the 7th string about the composer saint colombe featuring gerard depardieu
michaeldewerd 2 years ago
I thought it was called "Tous les matins du monde"
willcwhite 2 years ago
you are right! in german the film was called 'die siebente saite' (the 7th string) but in french it was 'tous les matins du monde' and in english 'all the world's mornings' it didn't think about that
michaeldewerd 2 years ago
Fantastic how he sings the different parts with nice voice and sincere emotion.
I have this record on DVD and I would like to have a similiar, with harnoncourt and Tolzer, for the St Mattheus Passion...but doest not exist.
dalberto 2 years ago 2
You can however have the Tolzers, under Leonhardt, on DHM - very fine performance.
colenso05 2 years ago
With a name like that, he must be Greek...I'm Greek and Iconomou is a common name
rossyxan 2 years ago
Yep, Greek descendance.
Gonnakillyou 2 years ago
One of the best. May be the voice is not perfectly controlled due to the young age, but the 'athmosphere' is extraordinary.
I really like this performance.
SUITESJSB 3 years ago 8
I guess Panito´s father died 2 weeks before this performance... and it´s easter, Christ Passion... and... "die Trauernacht" when the souls of ancient saints from jewish people were rescued by King of Juda... it´s perfect! :-)
rhminoda 2 years ago
WOW what a talented kid
Sshelly34213 3 years ago 3
It is just wonderful. I like to know who is the base singer and where is available the CD (or DVD-video).
Thank you.
6134447 3 years ago
The bass soloist is Robert Holl. The DVD of Bach's Johannes- Passion is from Deutsche Grammophon - you should have no trouble finding it in good record shops, or try Amazon.
colenso05 3 years ago
I have been collecting recordings of solo boys singing for many years and never cease to be amazed at what they can achieve. Even so, there are few moments of such transcendent beauty as this. "Awesome" is a much over used word, but it applies here.
colenso05 3 years ago 4
Ja sicher singt der Junge !!!!!!!
krom4720 3 years ago
I just wonder if there ever sung a boy my favourite alto aria from Bach "Erbarme dich" (St. Matthew Passion) - until now I jsut heard women and countertenors singing this aria ... I'm sure, this Boy could have sung it!
aquaria85 3 years ago
There are very few 11 or 12 year old boys who can sing Bach arias really well. When they can, the result is magnificent - for example Sebastian Hennig on the Teldec cantata recordings. Puberty occurred much later in the 18th century, and Bach's boy sopranos and altos could have been as old as 16 or 17.
Enebanrot 3 years ago
yes I know, that puberty was later - but even today some boys are lucky and have a unchanged voice until they are 14 or 15. panito was 14, when he sung this ...
aquaria85 3 years ago
According to Daw's 1974 article in Human Biology, which is based on the Thomasschule records, the average age for a boy's voice to change in Bach's time was 16.5/17 years. That means that there would have been some male sopranos nearer 19 or 20. They would have had enough training and experience to sing the really difficult arias.
Enebanrot 3 years ago
Hennig was ace, but a bit breathy to my ears... I have a recording of Hennig and Rene Jacobs doing the Pergolesi Stabat Mater.
Better than Hennig is Peter Jelosits, from the same series, who is credited with the bulk of NH's solos from 41-68, and is probably the uncredited boy from the WSK in the earlier cantatas. The clear tone, accurate tuning etc is all there, but it sounds a younger voice.
ForestChav 2 years ago
This is so beautiful. A fantastic performance of a great piece of music. I'm not religious but it strikes me that some of the greatest pieces of music have been written to the Glory of God.
yourforte 3 years ago
That is an interesting thought indeed, perhaps prompting consideration of the meaning of the word "inspiration".
rupepill 3 years ago
One of the best. May be the voice is not perfectly controlled due to the young age, but the 'athmosphere' is extraordinary.
I really like this performance.
SUITESJSB 3 years ago 3
il regazzino è perfetto: i migliori colori femminili e i migliori maschili, o meglio nel non definibile c'è tutto. credo che sei mesi dopo non abbia potuto cantare più niente del genere, stato di grazia di certi periodi della vita.
toxscreenisclean 3 years ago
è diventato baritono , canta tutt'ora , io ho avuto la fortuna di lavorare con lui 10 anni dopo questo video
cagnititi 2 years ago
God - the Judeo-Christian one - is so small before a piece of such beauty.
NYCBG 3 years ago
Loving Bach and being an atheist isn't a weird combination.
This is awesome! The alto is doing a great job!
stevtomato 3 years ago 4
Yes I agree. Music is Music.
Zerlina12 3 years ago
I agree! I don't have a judeo-christian background and I love Bach! Music transcends such concerns in my opinion.
cabbalistic 3 years ago
Oh, mein Gott! Wie eindrucksvoll! Das ist ja eine phantastische Leistung!
tritonusgesang 3 years ago 5
He sings like an angel, beutiful, good technique. How old is he now? Maybe he is actually a bass or baritone.
padrenatas 3 years ago 2
He is around 35-37 years old now. And he is a operasinger. Bass-bariton. And he sings sometimes with the Tölzer knabenchor as soloist.
Zerlina12 3 years ago 2
wonderful :)
Gitarre888 3 years ago 2
orgasmatic!!!
justinoalberic00 3 years ago
(Previous comment in response to bobbywjch)
littlechollo 3 years ago
Wonderful
plutarco7890 3 years ago 2
This is an absolutely devastating performance. As he starts the aria his is a face of desolation - and having read what he'd just been through I can understand why so much was being channelled into this performance. Look at the way the boys around keep their heads right down. They know what he is going through. But, none of this detracts from his performance; rather it serves - almost as an act of dedication - to enhance its thorough professionalism.
chalkyness 3 years ago 4
This was the reason for me to join youtube. I like Bach, even his sacral works in contrary to other musicians. His music is a drug. I need it to concentrate myself on working no matter whether in my research ormy paintings. But Panito and McCoin must have been sent from Jesus himself otherwise I can not explain myself this absolute masterpiece of an aria's performance. That happens to me, an convinced atheist!
ichmalealsobinich 3 years ago 3
How could you be a "convinced" atheist and love Bach? That perplexes me, honestly.
flipscratch81 3 years ago
Because I love the music of the barock era and especially this one from John Sebastian since I was 10 and also myself took part in his christmas oratorium with our schoolbys choir.
ichmalealsobinich 3 years ago 3
I, too, am an atheist who LOVES Bach's music, including the passions and sacred cantatas. There are uncountable masterpieces that are extremely varied and moving. The sounds, textures, colors, rhythms, melodies, and texts all combine in these great works.
3cplantin 3 years ago 9
True beauty -aesthestics- doesn't discriminate.
stopthosenabobs 3 years ago 5
Wunderschön...
JoeAcid69 3 years ago
This is a great and unique voice. The color he achieves, the darkness of timbre in his lower register - the whole tessitura is perfect, frankly - is incomparable to either counter-tenor or contralto voicings - and I love those, too. Panito's few offerings on the Leonhard complete Bach cantatas are godlike. Check out his recit, Gelobet sei dir Herr Gott Israel (BWV 167), moving, technically masterful.
RexVulpes 3 years ago 7
Bellissimo! Grazie, Emma.
silviafrizzera 3 years ago
now i'm not a big music person, my friend just showed me this because this is what she hasta learn for one of her classes, but i just really need to comment on this.
i know virtually nothing about this type of music, but i can tell that this kid is AMAZING at what he's doing, and i thought it sounded wonderful. =D i'm glad to hear that he was able to continue on w/ his wonderful voice and keep it as he got older =)
BlackInuyaju11 3 years ago 2
I don't think he's got a long way to go (anyway he must be like 35 years old by now...)
Non, vraiment, c'est la meilleure version que j'ai jamais entendue!
It's all these little imperfections that make this so touching and pronfoundly human. Pure essence of emotion. Can't stop listening to it.
presto208 3 years ago
An adult countertenor has lot more experience and better techique. But on the other hand here we have full voiced singing, the voice has lot of colour and emotion. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against countertenors.
Thrax1982 3 years ago
that's why I said he's got a long way to go. I think he will benefit more from critical opinions than mere congratulations. I think he needs to put more his own understanding and emotion into singing, that's what will make him stand out from the crowd
bobbywjch 3 years ago
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very well done but he's got a long way to go, listen to Yoshikazu Mera's version of this piece and you will see what I mean
bobbywjch 3 years ago
Merci pour cette information.
Ce n'est pas du tout la même chose...
Panito est un garçon et Yoshikazu est un contre-ténor.
Un garçon est moins précis, moins techniquement parfait mais, IMHO, tellement plus émouvant !
laughne 3 years ago
So what about this guy's performance? Sure, it sounds technically polished and very uniform in tone, but that's not everything. Panito's voice is more textured, and I like his vibrato. As I say, it's all a matter of personal opinion. Sure, training-wise, the boy has room to advance. But the performance is more heartfelt; more communicative. That matters a great deal to me as a listener.
littlechollo 3 years ago
Yes, I agree. in a intervju Panito talked about this performence and he told taht his father just had died some weeks before this performence, and he was thinking about his father when he was singing this. So thats why its so emotiinell
Zerlina12 3 years ago
Beautiful...these boys give all their emotions to the music.really amazing...
Thank god for Johann sebastian...He is one of my best friend in my heart.
J.J.
Stina1972 3 years ago 2
I have this on vinyl - that boy's voice was so rich and sorrowful and he has the desolation just right. Has he gone on to make an adult career?
oboist2 4 years ago 3
yes, he is a recognized baritone. Watch Jardain's video response. On this video he is singing with Robin Schlotz - Toelzer's soprano.
sophie8977 4 years ago
Yes he has. he is a operasinger now. And comes back to the choir sometimes to sing for exampel in Bachs Weichnachtoratorium. Look at the Videoresponses to the right on this video and you will see and hear him as adult singer.
Zerlina12 4 years ago
could someone add the lyrics of this arie please??
sophie8977 4 years ago
It is finished. O comfort of suffering souls. The night of sorrow now counts its final hour. The hero from Judah mightily wins and brings the strife to its close. It is finished.
(Ref. to John 19:30: "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.")
lovesIppol 4 years ago 3
Meine Güte! Ich habe kein Wort!!! Normal, dass Nikolaus Harnoncourt und Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden in diesem Konzert zutiefst gerührt waren. Ich hätte gewollt, dabei gewesen zu sein!!! Wie kann ein vierzehnjähriger Knabe sooo gut singen und ausdrücken, die Musik auf dieser Weise fühlen, seine eigenen Trilli mit herrvorragendem guten Geschmack erfinden, dass er seine Lehrer ständig überraschte...? Ja, er war Panito Iconomou und ein Tölzer, damit ist alles gesagt.
tkbewunderin79 4 years ago 8
This is simply amazing.
pamplonita 4 years ago 3
beautiful, i love this, i love him!
riasimoes 4 years ago 3
Lovely tone from Panito. And control.
picardythirds 4 years ago
Whow, it´s wonderful! I´ve heard it this afternoon many times, some minutes ago I ordered the DVD via amazon. Thank you so much for posting this video with this wonderful music.
Dackelfreundin 4 years ago