JS Bach - St Matthew Passion (ed. Mendelssohn)
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Label: Analekta
Cat No: AN953
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 22nd March 2024
Contents
Artists
The Bach Choir of BethlehemBach Festival Orchestra
Conductor
Christopher JacksonWorks
St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (ed. Felix Mendelssohn)Artists
The Bach Choir of BethlehemBach Festival Orchestra
Conductor
Christopher JacksonAbout
Today it is inconceivable to imagine music without Bach, but in the 1820s his music had been relegated to no more than the exercise-book for students of counterpoint. Turning often to Bach’s music after 1829, Mendelssohn performed the Passion again in Leipzig in 1841. Now in a romantic era with a symphonic sized orchestra and choir, he remodelled both the role of the Evangelist and soloists, compacting the Passion’s length by some 30 percent.
After his death in 1847 Mendelssohn’s ‘edition’ of the Passion lay fallow with his heirs in London, his grandson eventually bequeathing it to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A first complete reconstruction of Mendelssohn’s material by Malcolm Bruno and Caroline Ritchie is published in December 2023 by Bärenreiter Verlag, and the first recording by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem is released on the Analekta label.
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