Bach's Oratorios: The Parallel German-English Texts with Annotations. This item is unavailable.Bach's Oratorios: The Parallel German-English Texts with Annotations

While Bach's oratorios are frequently performed, studied, and revered by many enthusiasts, the precise meanings of their librettos are somewhat elusive. Marissen's close English translation of the often obscure or archaic German texts of the oratorios includes notes explaining historical, theological, and biblical references, which will promote a better understanding of these masterpieces. Translations appear parallel to the original German text.

Michael Marissen is the Daniel Underhill Professor of Music History, Swarthmore College, and author of Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion (Oxford, 1998) and The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Princeton, 1995), co-author (with Daniel Melamed) of An Introduction to Bach Studies (Oxford, 1998), and Editor, Creative Responses to Bach from Mozart to Hindemith (Nebraska, 1998). He is frequently an invited lecturer to major performances of Bach and Handel (e.g. the NY Philharmonic, among others), and speaks about 20+ times per year at these oratorio concerts.