Freislich: St. Matthew Passion
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Shipping Policy- Composer: Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich (1687-1764)
- Editor: Siegfried Mangold
- Instrumentation: Basso continuo, SATB Choir, Viola, Violin I, Violin II
- Work: St. Matthew Passion, FreisWV C 2
- Work language: German
- ISMN:
Description
The vocal score also includes all the recitatives.
Two Passions by Freislich have survived. in addition to a Passion based on the powerful text by the Hamburg poet Barthold H. Brockes (FreisWV C 4), Freislich set to music a libretto for the St Matthew Passion (FreisWV C 2), which his colleague in the chapel, Johann Christoph Rothe (1653–1700), had already used as the basis for a Passion for the court service on Good Friday 1697. A printed libretto of Freislich's St Matthew Passion has survived, suggesting that the work was performed in 1720 at St Trinitatis Church and that it was performed there in place of the St Matthew Passion by Melchior Vulpius (c. 1570–1615), a choral passion dating from 1613, which had been performed there annually for many decades.
Perhaps in order to make this break with tradition comprehensible to the congregation, Freislich composed the additional arias—set to non-biblical texts—as simple four-part choral choir-arias, which were performed collectively by the soloists at the time. in addition to these arias, which are unique in the history of Oratorio Passions, the work is characterised by expressive recitatives, short and incisive turbae choruses and sensitively interpretative chorales, making it well suited to smaller choirs. The piece was clearly close to Freislich's heart, for he took the score and vocal parts with him in 1731 when he took up his post as Kapellmeister at St. Mary's in Danzig, where it was also performed on several occasions in a revised form.
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Freislich: St. Matthew Passion
