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

this is as hight as ever classic music may reach...from antiquity to today...

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

B R A V O the right tempo Bach should never be played too fast

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

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

@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.

toll

Is that an oboe or an english horn?

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

what is the form of this piece? is it binary?

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.