Kuijken / La Petite Band - St. John Passion

[Charles]

Yesterday, I attended performance of the St. John Passion with La Petite
Band/S. Kuijken as part of the Lucerne Easter Festival in Switzerland.
Thoroughly impressed: sung OVPP (8 singers), no conductor, and Kuijken
played no less than three instruments:

http://www.lapetitebande.be/


Other performances are:

Tue 04.04.06 Concert in Valladolid
Teatro Calderón Primusic ***@tcalderon.com
0034/902 37 11 37

Wed 05.04.06 20.00 Concert in Brussels
Bozar (main hall) Bozar 02/507 82 00
www.bozar.be

Thu 06.04.06 20.30 Concert in Paris
Eglise St.Roch Concerts parisiens
Philippe Maillard productions +33/(0)1 48 24 16 97
www.concertsparisiens.fr

Sun 09.04.06 14.30 Concert in Haarlem
Philharmonie Fred Luiten Concertorganisatie and Philharmonie Haarlem
+31/900-7445427
www.philharmonie.nu


Kind regards
Charles

[Thomas Wood]

Post by Charles
Yesterday, I attended performance of the St. John Passion with La Petite
Band/S. Kuijken as part of the Lucerne Easter Festival in Switzerland.
Thoroughly impressed: sung OVPP (8 singers), no conductor, and Kuijken

8 singers in the St. John Passion would be TVPP -- two voices per part.

Tom Wood

[s***@yahoo.com]

Actually, as much as there are original parts available.
According to the editor of the SJP in the NBA, the late Arthur Mendel,
an exceptional number of singers.

[o***@aol.com]

8 singers = (presumably) 4 soloists and 4 ripienists? So not really 2
per part.
regards
Oliver Webber

[John Briggs]

Post by o***@aol.com
8 singers = (presumably) 4 soloists and 4 ripienists? So not really 2
per part.

Yes, those are the eight parts. And that was because he only had to perform
in one of the two main churches on Good Friday, so he had two 'choirs'
available. Rifkin suggests that the ripienists weren't used in performances
in the 1740s, as there are separate solo parts 'Tenore Servus' and 'Basso
Petrus &Pilatus' which seem to replace them.