Suzie Leblanc & Daniel Taylor - Se il cor ti perde

these 2 Canadians have the most extraordinary voices together!!!! I just love it...

Thanks for confirming my thoughts.

Well, Michael Chance is great, of course. But I personally prefer Daniel Taylor. He has this angelic, "ethereal" touch in his voice. Absolutely amazing! I have this CD. His and Suzy Leblanc's voices sound wonderful and enchanting together! The recording of the highest quality. Just great!

Daniel Taylor is extraordinary, I had the luck to see him recently at the Oregon Bach Festival. Amazing!

You are really lucky! It must have been unforgettable. I have some of his CDs but haven't heard him in concert yet.

Well, you guessed it! I have written reviews for all of chance's recordings and several listmanias that list his
participation in choruses AND his 'hidden' participation as well. And I do have the two recordings you mentioned and your comment is quite accurate as to your appreciation; he is brilliant but one has to acquire a likeing for some of the other aspects of them. I'm always pleased to know someone else who has the same positive response to Chance's musical attributes.

Oh yes, he's one of my absolute musical idols, I hope to hear him in concert later this year singing Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri with the Purcell Quartet, Emma Kirkby, Charles Daniels, and Peter Harvey. And I have noticed that Chance can be heard in several recordings where he is a choral alto, especially with the Monteverdi Choir around the early 1980s, e.g. L'Allegro, etc. I think I've detected him singing in the chorus on the recording of Esther conducted by Hogwood...

Also, I don't know if you are aware, but Chance participated in the Bach Pilgramage in 2000 in at least one concert singing Epiphany cantatas with the Monteverdis. There is a DVD of the pilgramage which shows him singing the duet from BWV 154 with James Gilchrist. This CD should be released in the next year as Volume 18 of the series, I believe. I very much hope that he also sings in BWV 63, as I would love to hear him interpret the lovely alto recitative therein, and the later alto/tenor duet.

What is the title of the DVD that features the duet with Gilchrist? I do not know of it and checked on AMAZON who only shows the film with Koszena and Towers (slto) ; is this the one of which you speak?

It is this one, although I meant to say that it doesn't show the whole duet, but only a tiny bit of it in rehearsal with John Eliot Gardiner shushing them both as Chance continues to hold a long note. It is on the documentary of the pilgramage bit. The DVD is worth having anyway though, I think. The performance of the three cantatas is good, although Kozena does make all kinds of faces and grimaces (and still sounds flawless), and Towers is a bit wooden looking and sounding.