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Johann Sebastian Bach/Gustav Leonhardt, Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: V. Menuets I & II, 1987
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Johann Sebastian Bach/Gustav Leonhardt, Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: V. Menuets I & II, 1987
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Kurt Equiluz(tenor), Gustav Leonhardt, Leonhardt-Consort
[N.H.] But I believe some solos in Bach cantatas were sung by women – indeed, in my opinion, this was implied by Bach. (I believe that) he kept quiet about it, and that when boys couldn’t cope with them, and weren’t as expressive as he would have liked, he allowed a woman to sing, and arranged it in such a way that he never confessed to his church superiors: the woman could not be seen in the gallery, and officially, of course, everything was sung by boys. That is my opinion, which I can’t prove, but which I have held for a long time, and which I have also discussed at length with Leonhardt. B.U. And he wasn’t of the same opinion? N.H. In his opinion, everything in Bach… The rule was that women were not allowed to sing. But I knew that in the 20th century, in the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, where again only boys were allowed to sing – that was in the 1940s and 50s – the young Irmgard Seefried sang almost all the important treble solos. She told me this herself, and so I thought that this trick, this little swindle, had probably been used rather often. A rule doesn’t mean that that’s how things are done, a rule is generally there to be broken. So when the use of the organ in church is forbidden, which was the case for a long time, for me that isn’t proof that no organ was used, but proof that an organ was used – or it would not have been forbidden. It’s when the lights at a crossroads are red that I particularly like to go through the crossroads, although I know it’s forbidden, because it’s much more exciting than going when the lights are green. So a ban… Leonhardt was of the opinion that if a thing was forbidden it wasn’t done. They kept to the ban. And I am fundamentally of the opinion that when something is forbidden it’s done. Otherwise it wouldn’t be forbidden.
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