Juozas Rimas wrote:
>Are there any recordings of this work *without* the evangelist parts (the
>half-spoken ones). Or would it be regarded as a sacrilege?
I don't know about "sacrilege", but I think that if I hadn't sung in this
in my youth, in English - as part of Canterbury Choral Society, I too would
skip past the recitative. But somehow now it seems incomplete without
it,even if it is broadcast in German.. I don't know about recording of
this work tho'I haven't one. I prefer to hear it live if possible..
Regards, Doris, UK.