St. John Passion "O Mensch, bewein"

Unlike Bach’s other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the St. John Passion. Bach constantly updated and adapted his compositions to meet the exigencies of an impending performance, thus his attempt to proudce a final version of the work apparently never reached fruition. The present volume contains the St. John Passion in its second version of 1725. In addition to a change in order of several movements, the second version differs from the earlier version by the use of the opening chorus “O Mensch, bewein”. The performance material corresponds to the Urtext edition of Version II which is published as part of the “New Bach Edition – Revised” (NBArev).