Bert van t'Hoff

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Bert van t'Hoff is a Dutch tenor who specializes in Baroque music in historically informed performance.

He performed in 1965 the tenor arias in an early recording of Nikolaus Harnoncourt of Bach's St John Passion , with Kurt Equiluz as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the vox Christi (voice of Christ). [1]

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References

  1. "Bert van t'Hoff (Tenor)". Bach-Cantatas. Retrieved 12 March 2016.