New realisation of Bach’s lost St. Mark Passion

Canasg Music is delighted to announce publication of a new and compelling reconstruction by Andrew Wilson-Dickson of J. S. Bach’s lost St. Mark Passion. Bach’s St. Mark Passion was performed in 1731 and 1744 and a complete libretto (by Picander) survives, along with the music for several of the choruses and arias (for which Bach drew on pre-existing compositions, notably the funeral cantata BWV 198) and Bach’s own chorale harmonisations. Andrew Wilson-Dickson (composer and director of the Welsh Camerata) has composed original music, in the style of Bach, for the missing recitative sections and the dramatic ‘crowd choruses’, creating a seamless work that will make a great adventure for an enterprising choir and chamber orchestra.

Wilson-Dickson’s reconstruction of the St. Mark was premiered on Good Friday 2016 by the Welsh Camerata and the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.

Canasg’s edition of this new realisation of the St. Mark Passion can be viewed and explored here and you can order any combination of the vocal score, full score and instrumental parts.