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Bach: St. Mark Passion, BWV 247

4/6/2018, 50 Tracks, 1:27:04

Featuring

  • Felix Koch
  • Wolfgang Vater
  • Jasmin Maria Hörner
  • Julien Freymuth
  • Georg Poplutz
  • Christian Wagner
  • Neumeyer Consort
  • Gutenberg-Kammerchor
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

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Composition History

Bach's St. Mark Passion, BWV 247, is a lost work, and this recording presents a reconstruction based on existing pieces and new elements.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

This recording includes eight arias, reflecting the 1744 version of the St. Mark Passion, which was discovered to have two additional arias.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The St. Mark Passion text is recited in this recording, as the original recitatives and crowd choruses are impossible to reconstruct with certainty.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The St. Mark Passion is considered Bach's 'chorale passion' because it contained a greater number and variety of chorale verses than his two surviving Passions.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Bach reused music from his 1727 'Trauerode' (Funeral Ode), BWV 198, for the framing choruses and three arias of the St. Mark Passion.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The existence of two additional arias in the 1744 version of the St. Mark Passion was only discovered in 2009 by Tatjana Schabalina in a printed libretto.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The reconstruction of the St. Mark Passion by Diethard Hellmann and Andreas Glöckner, with additions by Karl Böhmer, aims to recreate Bach's original compositional process.

Source: Booklet

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