Bach - B minor Mass - 10 - Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

[MrHbc3]

Is that an oboe or an english horn?

[xNewspaper]

@MrHbc3 it's an oboe d'amore

[halakitty]

This Oboe Player is Kurt Housemann my father's tutuor in Germany in the 50's. my father has soooooooooooo much respect for him.

[anubier]

Das etwas Schleierhafte in dieser Stimme,macht diese Sängerin so einmalig und großartig

[beethomozart]

very beautiful indeed, inspiring and heavenly celestial

[akhmm]

Realy great rendition. i realy like the changed part after the verse ok the Aoud Solo is.t song anymore but fits the song well . by . Opera Lalay Persian. it is great music i love it.

[henkerfastwalker]

And the oboe soloist is Kurt Hausmann. Thanks Kurt, you are amaising ! you played a lote with my Dad all over the world and in Hamburg, Fritz Henker. Thanks

[moominflute1]

Fascinating how fashions change re:playing baroque music. This is played so 'romantically' with loads of vibrato, quite unlike the versions popular now with sparse orchestration/choir and less full sound. I have to confess I don't like her interpretation anyway - quite dull.

[Heartlessiceboy]

I believe that the problem here is not really the singer,Is the orchestration very big,the piece is very hard in the intonation part beacuse it has a huge amount of half tones and the musical phrases a terribly long,now if the singer also needs to fight with a huger orchestra it is almost imposible! this was composed with small instrumentation,for a medium volume voice and very intimate PRAYER feeling,definetively not Verdi's requiem

[leandrusi]

@Heartlessiceboy I dont think the size of the orchestra should dificult intonation. Althought I agree with the idea that It should be smaller.

[Heartlessiceboy]

@leandrusi Really? Well that it's my opinion, I have sung all the alto parts from this mass(the Agnus Dei it's even harder) and are probably the hardest intonation pieces I have ever sung, and also i belive that the instrumentation can change a lot the performance of a particular piece,if you are a singer you can check diferent scores and see how the ones that are composed for heavy orchestration have less complicated vocals...of course there are exceptions like Wagner.

[TheManSAberi]

vielen dank!!!

[singspiel35]

omg toooooo slow! i would have thought at this tempo there would have been at least a hint of legato. what a disappointment. i am singing this in two weeks and was hoping to hear a halfway decent performance here... yet again disappointed!

[rgeraredz]

Buy the 1961 Shaw recording. Florence Kopleff rocks. My vote for best moder-instrument performance ever.

[gaertnergmx]

i am going to sing it and im afraid this song si so difficult to sing

[Damiancontratenor]

guaaaaaaaaaau!! QUE PEINADO!!! BRAVA VOZ!!

[IronyGod]

D: MAN did they do this slow! No wonder she's having so much trouble with her breaths! Not to mention she drags the tempo down even more once she starts singing.

Her voice is much too covered, and she should act the song a bit more, but it's a difficult song, so she didn't do too bad, considering.

This was very helpful, nonetheless, so thank you very much for putting this up. I couldn't find any other samples of this song on here! :)

[bisteca74]

Some serious interpretation and intonation issues. This would sound MUCH better if done by a properly trained mezzo!!!!

[onionpizza]

She represses herself so much she renders this part lifeless. Not sure what Bach had in mind for this aria but her singing doesn't sound right, too void of emotion. On the other hand she sings well and let's not forget that Bach had to deal with kids because women weren't allowed to sing. If kids those days were anything like kids today this movement must have sounded horrible. If the alternative is a kid or a "castrato" I guess we're better off with a lifeless soprano:-)

[onionpizza]

oops, i meant Alto

[0o0doir0o0]

thanx so much for posting i have to sing this for my exam in november!!!

[muenster1648]

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