Felix Mendelssohn can claim the credit of having ushered in the Bach-Renaissance with his arrangement and performance of the ?St Matthew Passion?. It was revived for the first time in the Berlin Singakademie on 11 March 1829, one hundred years after its premiere in Leipzig?s Thomaskirche. A second arrangement was performed in Leipzig in 1841. Originally only available on hire as part of the edition published by Bärenreiter in 2009, this vocal score is now available on sale. It enables both the Berlin and the later Leipzig versions to be performed. A concordance provides information on the respective sequence of movements and their relation to the Bach Works Catalogue (BWV) and the ?New Bach Edition?. - Both Mendelssohn versions available in one edition - Easy-to-play idiomatic piano reduction Edition no.: BA 9088-90 ISMN: 9790006502363 Editor: Winkler, Klaus Language(s) of work: German Language(s) of text: German, English Product format: Piano reduction, Urtext edition Binding: Paperback Pages / Format: XV, 258 S. - 27,0 x 19,0 cm

1. Choir 2. Choir Organ-Version of 1736 (final version)Bach???s St. Matthew Passion passed through several stages in its progress towards its final form stages that today cannot be completely reconstructed. It may be taken as certain that the work was performed on Good Friday 1729 in St. Thomas???s Church Leipzig in a version of which the copy made by Bach???s son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnickol gives us an approximate idea. There is no earlier extant autograph score than that of the later version which may probably be dated 1736 and on which the present edition is based.- Study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm- Urtext of the New Bach Edition-Full score performance material (BA5038) vocal score (BA5038-90) and study score (TP196) available for sale

New English Translation-Piano/Vocal score; English only a new translation by the Reverend Lyndon van der Pump