James Bowman

 

Sad to hear the news of the death of James Bowman just now on the wireless.

He was a favourite singer alongside the likes of Al Green and any number of 1960's soul ladies and other counter-tenors.

His recording of the Couperin Lecons de Tenebres with Michael Chance was a revelation and the first of several of that music I bought but, having been in place first, it remained the preferred option.

He appeared in Portsmouth Cathedral a few times in semi-retirement, with Catherine Bott in a memorable double act and what I think was his last Messiah.

You Tube doesn't appear to have the Couperin and perhaps he never recorded Buxtehude's Klag-Lied but there is other Buxtehude.