Dunedin Consort – Bach Markus Passion (Scottish Premiere)

Two years ago, Bill Barclay brought his amazing production of Secret Byrd to St Mary’s, and it was the sensation of the festival. He returns with an extraordinary new project – the Markus Passion of JS Bach. Immediately after Bach’s death, his son Carl Philipp Emanuel delivered the score to the publisher. A century later, when Breitkopf sought to complete the first complete addition of Bach’s music, they discovered that they had only the libretto; the score was missing.

For more than 150 years scholars have laboured to reconstruct the score, guessing that most of the music would have been borrowed from other works. The Trauer-Ode is believed to be the main source. Malcolm Bruno’s new edition includes three beautiful and virtually known arias along with a unique role for an Evangelist-Narrator Concert Theatre works has fashioned a theatrical presentation to recreate Bach’s long-lost vision.

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