Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Mark's Passion BWV 247
Recitatives and turbae by Reinhard Keiser - 1674-1739
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Mark's Passion BWV 247
Recitatives and turbae by Reinhard Keiser - 1674-1739
- Instrumentation Soloists, Mixed Choir (SATB) and Chamber Orchestra
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Editor Austin Harvey Gomme
- Editor Austin Harvey Gomme
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- Edition Piano Reduction Download
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA5209-90-DL
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Description:
J. S. Bach's St. Mark Passion has already undergone many attempts at reconstruction. Only the text according to Picander has survived and thus allows conclusions to be drawn about the original form of the Passion. Due to various parody relationships, however, almost all the arias and choruses can be reconstructed with great certainty. The music of the recitatives and turbae, on the other hand, is probably lost forever. In contrast to other reconstructions, Austin H. Gomme does not use the dubious technique of a new composition "in the style of Bach", but supplements the reconstructable material with elements from Reinhard Keiser's St. Mark Passion. Keiser, who as a contemporary of Bach himself set the Passion text according to St. Mark, was highly regarded by Bach. There is evidence that he performed Keiser's St. Mark Passion several times.
The reconstruction by Austin H. Gomme, carried out for the first time against the background of the New Bach Edition, now makes it possible to perform the lost work as a whole and thus to place the unique arias and choruses in a musically coherent context of the Passion story.
The reconstruction by Austin H. Gomme, carried out for the first time against the background of the New Bach Edition, now makes it possible to perform the lost work as a whole and thus to place the unique arias and choruses in a musically coherent context of the Passion story.