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.
