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we performed this song in mt hs choir class but sounded way different...I wish I could hear it(our version) again...
calvic805 1 year ago
A very academic performance and a conductor not used to the orchestra.
JSC1401 2 years ago
The guy is not singing alto he is singing contra-tenor it is in between tenor and alto. In the seventeenth century they used contra-tenors to reach a pitch above tenor which (for the trained ear) a woman could not quite reach.
tzulachen 2 years ago
Why is a guy singing the alto parts?
bboydaduke 2 years ago
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What is odd about this performance is not that a man is singing the alto part, but that a woman is singing the soprano part.
Female voices were not used in German church music until the end of the 18th c. Soprano and alto parts were typically sung by young boys or adult male falsettists.
Today adult male falsettists are common in rock music and barber shop quartetts. They were also common in church music in Bach's time.
wcbroccoli 2 years ago 3
because he can ;) - and in bach times women were not alowed to sing in church - so it is a little bit more original.
aquaria85 2 years ago
@aquaria85 very interesting what you say, thanks
guggemuus 1 year ago
Bach would have had two boys to sing the solos !
JSC1401 2 years ago
@JSC1401 and thank goodness things have moved on considerably from how it must have been back then, when they hadn't even begun to imagine what a flushing toilet was. Shame they just don't use a 2nd sop for this 2nd sop part :/
pianomags 1 year ago