Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Bernarda

I wish to make up for the fact that I have never posted Bernarda Fink, the wonderful mezzo. I have chosen "Esurientes" from the Bach Magnificat.  She is my friend Dolores' favorite singer.



I sang this when I was young and am very embarrassed to realize that her pronunciation is correct while mine was not. 

The text is "The hungry he filled with good things."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well you should be sorry ;).
What a lovely tone. Thanks for posting her.
BTW- what did you mispronounce? KC

Dr.B said...

"Esurientes" if using Italian pronunciation, "s" between two vowels should be a "z" sound. You can hear her say "ezurientes." This s or z thing is very tricky.