Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Passions-Cantate BR-CPEB D 2 (Wq 233)
Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Passions-Cantate BR-CPEB D 2 (Wq 233)
Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers
- Instrumentation 4 Soloists (SATB), Mixed Choir (SATB), 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Oboes d'Amore, 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Viole da Gamba
- Composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Editor Moira Leanne Hill
- Lyricist Anna Luise Karsch Christoph Daniel Ebeling
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- Publisher Carus-Verlag
- Order no. CV33233-00
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Description:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach scored a real hit with his "Passion Cantata". The work was already so popular during Bach's lifetime that there were public calls for an annual performance. Bach himself is said to have called the "Passion Cantata" his "Spinnhauß Passion", as after the premiere in 1770 there was actually a performance every year in Hamburg's Spinnhauskirche until 1785. A public favorite through and through, which is musically very closely related to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" of 1769. Bach took on a large part of the solo movements. He composed new recitatives, a chorale and two choruses. Following the trend of the time, he used a poetic retelling from the pen of Anna Louisa Karsch instead of the biblical text. The oratorio Passion thus became a Passion oratorio. This more modern and perhaps also more accessible genre met the general taste of the time. Numerous copies and printed texts illustrate how the work spread far beyond Hamburg's city limits. The score is volume IV,3 of the C.P.E. Bach Complete Edition, edited by Moira Hill for the Packard Humanities Institute, Los Altos, California. Carus offers the piano reduction and the choral score in the proven Carus edition. The high-quality cloth score and the orchestral material can also be obtained from Carus.