Donald on Goerne's over-emotion as Jesus:

>However, I've always had the impression that emotions were relatively
>restrained based on Jesus already knowing about the upcoming betrayal and
>its necessity; given his leadership position, I think it reasonable that
>the emotional levels did not get out of hand.
>
>Harnoncourt's version presents two problems.  First, Matthias Goerne
>as Jesus over-emotes and seems frantic at times, as if he had no idea
>ahead of time about Judas and his betrayal.

It depends on which gospel you're looking at.  Luke plays down Jesus'
emotional side quite a bit as compared to Mark.  Mark mentions Jesus'
indignancy (10:14), cursing (11:21), and terror and anguish, (14:33-34).

I think Goerne's strategy could be justified here.

John Smyth