This photograph was taken about the time of the recording that Andreas posted. I have used high resolution scanning so members may inspect the photo in every detail. Doubtless, many of the singers you see in the photo will have sung on Anreas' posted MP3 file, as the dates are merely one year apart!
So, download the file and photo, and enjoy your own 's Bach music video! Andreas Burghardt wrote October 8, : [To Boyd Pehrson] Thank you very much for the Straube photo and the interesting 18 th century engravings.
Straube always took a particular interest in questions of performance forces. This approach was noticeable in his performance of the Brandenburg concertos with small forces altogether 14 players.
He also performed the St. Matthew passion and the cantatas exclusively with the Thomaner choir in a time when the great passion of J.
Bach were usually performed by a mixed choir of more than singers. In the last year of his life he reminisced: "In teaching the choir boys of St. Thomas' I have learned immensely The broadcast were transmitted every Sunday at The magnetic recording tape had not yet been invented. The broadcasting stations had to assemble their programs almost exclusively from live contributions. So, the sound documents are not archival recordings as we understand them today. Recordings were very costly because the recording capacity of recording disks was only a few minutes.
