Arleen Aug r , Cornelius Hauptmann , et al.
Proof comes from a very unexpected source.
No one was more surprised than they were, but one minute of this blazing performance confirms that they were right. A superb disc. Barbara Bonney , Angela Maria Blasi , et al. Vienna Concentus Musicus , Arnold Schoenberg Choir , et al. Harnoncourt and his charges do a lovely job with the orchestral pages of the setting, originally written to accompany the singing of the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini.