Bach-Mendelssohn: Passion Music after the Evangelist Matthew
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Editors: Malcolm Bruno, Caroline Ritchie Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, SATB Choir Originally for: Orchestra, Double Choir (SATB + SATB) Work: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 Binding: Paperback ISMN: 9790006574674 Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches Pages: 223 Description The new Bärenreiter edition returns to Mendelssohn's unique vision of Bach's masterpiece. By bringing together what Mendelssohn had sketched and including supplements to certain parts by the editor, the work is now presented in its reduced form, with the revised part for the Evangelist (in the secco recitatives with orchestral accompaniment), with clarinets replacing the oboe d'amore, and with a suggestion for the missing continuo part (which had been begun for the Thomaskirche organ but remained unfinished or was lost). The new edition shows not only Mendelssohn's imaginative reinterpretation of the original, b