Stevevasta@... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/7/2009 5:55:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> mahler@yahoogroups.com writes:
>
> <<I don't really understand the
> presence of boy soprano and boy alto on the Nagano.>>
>
The boy alto seems very specifically to have been assigned to the
> lamenting solos for the "horn" or whatever it is. Nagano also has a grown-up
female
> alto who sings the _other_ alto solos...!
>
Dear Steve,
As I just noted in my delayed response to Mike, it's good to know
these things; I simply have
never heard any distinction between the alleged two boys on the Nagano.
It would have been
good for the Nagano libretto to have indicated such. Of course I hear
the adult singers.
And BTW I certainly hear a distinction between the two boys, when they
are soloists, in the Leonhardt-Harnoncourt cantatas.
The "horn" you refer to, I recall as a flute but at all events it is the
bone of the slain brother, the victim
of fratricide. A frater cannot be sung by a girl in my opinion.
After all this information, I withdraw my years of praise for the notes
that come with the Nagano.
YLA
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