On Nov 19, 2010, at 3:16 PM, wikla wrote: > So if I am asked to play the lute parts in the St. John, to what am I > really asked??
At the risk of sounding obvious, you should ask the director, the only person who knows. Bach made changes to both his passions, and both involved eliminating a lute obbligato. In the original St. John, Betrachte mein Seel had a lute part. The later version gives it to the organ. Who's the lute player in this video of Karl Richter's St. John? She gets more attention from the camera than the singer (Nimsgern? Engen?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMiwUs70U9U For that matter, who's the lute player in this Gardiner video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wLrTK882b4&feature=related To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
