Bach-Mendelssohn: Passion Music after the Evangelist Matthew

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, but also the versatility of Bach's music in his hands. in an age in which Bach is played almost exclusively by Baroque ensembles, it allows them the opportunity to perform one of Bach's greatest works from a 19th century perspective.