Bargain Bach St. Mark Passion BWV 247 -Rezitative und turbae von Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739)- (A reconstruction) Full Score

Editor: Gomme, Austin Harvey

Orchestral scoring : SSolo/ASolo/TSolo/BSolo/Mixed choir-SATB/Orch

Product format: score

Binding: Paperback

Pages / Format: 29,9 x 22,9 cm

Although all that survives of Bach’s “St. Mark Passion” is Picander’s libretto, virtually all the arias and choruses can be reconstructed from “parody” versions. The original recitatives and turbae , however, are probably lost forever. Rather than rewriting these numbers “in Bachs’s style”, Gomme has added passages from Reinhard Keiser’s setting of the Passion (a setting highly esteemed by Bach, who performed it several times), thereby allowing this lost work to be performed in its entirety. A detailed preface sheds further light on this unique reconstruction based on the New Bach Edition.