Look and see if there is any pain, BWV 46
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Look and see if there is any pain | |
| BWV: | 46 |
| Occasion: | 10th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1723 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Tr 2Fl 2Oc 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Johann Matthäus Meyfart , unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Look and see if there is any pain ( BWV 46) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for the 10th Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on August 1, 1723.
Story and words
In his first year in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for the 10th Sunday after Trinity, which he began on the first Sunday after Trinity with Die Elenden shall eat . The prescribed readings for the Sunday were as Epistle 1 Corinthians 12.1 to 11 LUT , "Mancherlei gifts, but one Spirit," and as gospel Lk 19.41 to 48 LUT , Jesus preached the destruction of Jerusalem and driving the merchants from the temple . An unknown poet began the text with a quote from the Bible, Klgl 1,12 LUT , composed a sequence of four sentences, alternating recitative and aria , and concluded with the ninth stanza of the song "O great God of Power" by Johann Matthäus Meyfart .
Bach first performed the cantata on August 1, 1723.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of three soloists, alto , tenor and bass , slide trumpet , two recorders , two oboe da caccia , two violins , viola and basso continuo . The instrumentation is extraordinarily rich for an ordinary Sunday.
- Coro: Look and see if there is any pain
- Recitativo (tenor): So lament, destroyed city of God
- Aria (bass): Your weather came from far away
- Recitativo (old): But do not imagine yourself, o sinner
- Aria (old): But Jesus also wants the punishment
- Chorale: O great God of faithfulness
music
The first movement consists of two sections and is a large lament full of symbolism . Bach arranged the first section as Qui tollis peccata mundi des Gloria of his Missa from 1733, which was later included in his B minor Mass . The bass aria dramatically paints the outbreak of a thunderstorm. It is the only movement in which the trumpet, which otherwise amplifies the soprano, appears as a soloist and expresses God's majesty. The altarie is a quartet of the voice, the two recorders and the oboes in unison , without basso continuo. In the final chorale, the four-part movement is enriched line by line with interludes of the recorders. They are reminiscent of the interludes of the entrance choir and thus ensure formal unity.
Recordings
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 46 & BWV 65 , Helmut Kahlhöfer , Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke , Barmer Chamber Orchestra, Lotte Wolf-Matthäus , Georg Jelden , Jakob Stämpfli , Cantate 1960
- JS Bach: The cantatas Complete Cantatas Les Cantates, Episode / Vol. 12 - BWV 43-46 , Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Leonhardt-Consort , René Jacobs , Kurt Equiluz , Hanns-Friedrich Kunz , Telefunken 1975
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 46 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Helen Watts , Adalbert Kraus , Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1976
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 8 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz , Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1998
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 11 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1723 / IV - BWV 46, 95, 136, 138 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Kai Wessel , Makoto Sakurada , Peter Kooij , BIS 1998
- Bach Edition Vol. 11 - Cantatas Vol. 5 , Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Sytse Buwalda , Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar , Brilliant Classics 1999
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 5: Rendsburg / Braunschweig / For the 8th Sunday after Trinity / For the 10th Sunday after Trinity , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Daniel Taylor , Christoph Genz , Gotthold Schwarz , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 and Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04431-4 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach . 1947. 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas . Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig), ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verlag).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Look and see if there is any pain, BWV 46 : Notes and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 46 Look and see if there is any pain in Bach Cantatas (English)
- Look and see if there is any pain on the Bach.de website
- BWV 46 Look and see if there is any pain Text, structure, cast, at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Wolff : On the first cycle of Bach cantatas for the Leipzig liturgy 1723/1724. (pdf, 10.2 MB) 1998, p. 14 , accessed on August 10, 2012 (English).
