Chorus a cappella (solos:
SATBB - choir: SSAATB -
2.2.2.2.dble bsn.serp -
4.2.3.0 - timp - org -
str)
SKU:
BR.CHB-5297-02
Oratorio on Words from
the Holy Scriptures -
Urtext. Composed by
Felix Bartholdy
Mendelssohn. Edited by
Michael Marker. Choir;
Softbound.
Chor-Bibliothek (Choral
Library).
Marker's
Urtext edition is based
on the first edition of
the score from 1835.
Oratorio/passion;
Romantic. Choral score.
84 pages. Duration 130'.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#ChB 5297-02. Published
by Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.CHB-5297-02).
ISBN
9790004412237. 7.5 x 10.5
inches.
One can
truly say that
Mendelssohn's St. Paul
oratorio is a genuine
work in progress - such
as one finds repeatedly
in the composer's works.
After the world premiere
in Dusseldorf in 1836,
the composer sighed:
Since I changed a number
of things after the
performance, notably in
the recitatives, and
omitted a few pieces
entirely, I really don't
know how these changes
can be made in the
quartet parts that have
already been
engraved.Luckily, the
score had not yet been
printed at this point in
time. It was published
not long afterwards
(1837) and served as the
basis for the old
Complete Edition, where,
however, it was mixed
together with other
sources.Michael Marker's
present Urtext edition
uses the first edition of
the score as the main
source for the first
time. Its inconsistencies
were emended by the
editor in agreement with
other contemporary
sources.By forgoing the
version transmitted by
Julius Rietz (1878), on
which all later
reprintings were based,
in favor of the score of
the first edition of
1835, which was
personally supervised by
the composer, a new
Paulus has come to light:
freed from a number of
conventionalizing,
adulterating retouchings,
at times more angular in
detail and thus more
characteristic. (Michael
Marker about his New
Edition,
1997)
Marker's
Urtext edition is based
on the first edition of
the score from 1835.
