![]() One of the best things about the New Novello edition is The Easter Oratorio may finally receive the attention itĭeserves. As such, the work is anomalous in Bach's sacred output.Īs edited by Neil Jenkins for the New Novello Choral Edition, John (bass), Mary, mother of James (soprano), and Mary Magdalene Of Jesus' resurrection with four named characters: Peter (tenor), Picander, who penned the birthday text) is a drama on the discovery The 1725 Easter libretto (which may be the work of Though new recitatives were necessary for the initial sacred Original secular cantata's arias and closing chorus hardly changed, Over the various stages of revision, the notes of the Weissenfels, recycled (with a new sacred libretto) in an EasterĬantata that same year, and revised around 1738 and again betweenġ7, eventually became known as the Easter ![]() Thus movementsĬomposed in early 1725 for a birthday cantata for Duke Christian of Piece for a major religious feast in Leipzig. Largely of secular cantata movements to which new sacred texts wereįitted when there was a need for a larger than normal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ISBN 1-84449-080-7.)Įssentially extended cantatas, Bach's three oratorios consist In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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