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Reviewer: J.
F. Weber Bejun Mehta has sung as a treble, a baritone, and finally as a countertenor. (Strictly speaking, he is a male alto, like Alfred Deller; a countertenor has a natural tenor voice, like Russell Oberlin.) He discovered the cantata repertoire with the final selection on the program, Handel’s “Yet can I hear” from The Choice of Hercules, which led him to assembling this collection of Baroque works. The first work on the program is one of Handel’s most popular solo cantatas. The popular Bach work, Ich habe genug, features an oboe solo, hence it is the alto version, not the soprano version with flute. The Hoffmann work was long attributed to Bach, hence the Schmieder number. The Johann Christoph Bach work is his most familiar on records with three in my collection and almost a dozen versions just in the Fanfare Archive. The ensemble plays without a conductor, but Bernhard Forck is credited as concertmaster. This is my first exposure to Bejun Mehta, a remarkable musician with incredible flexibility in the most intricate Baroque flourishes combined with lovely tonal quality. I have previously appreciated extraordinary countertenors, including Henri Ledroit, Yoshikazu Mera, and Franz Vitzthum, among many others. Mehta already has a long list of entries in the Fanfare Archive that I knew nothing about. It may be noted that he is a cousin of the conductor Zubin Mehta. The mix of familiar and less familiar works makes an interesting program. If you don’t know this singer, try it for a fine introduction. | ||||
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