I love the Most High with all my mind
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I love the Most High with all my mind | |
| BWV: | 174 |
| Occasion: | Whit Monday |
| Year of origin: | 1729 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2 Cc 2Ob Ot 3Vs 3Va 3Vc 2Vn Va Bc |
| text | |
| Picander , Martin Schalling | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
I love the Most High with all my heart ( BWV 174) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for Whit Monday and performed it for the first time on June 6, 1729.
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata for Whit Monday. The prescribed readings for the feast day were Acts 10.16-21 LUT , Peter's sermon for Cornelius , and John 3.16-21 LUT , "So God loved the world ..." from the meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus . The cantata text was written by Picander and published in his 1728 year of cantata texts. Nine of his texts from this year have been preserved in Bach's setting. If Bach composed more, they would be lost. In the first aria , the poet contemplates the beginning of the gospel and concludes that the Christian owes God thanks in response to his love. In the following recitative , the beginning of the sentence from the Gospel is commented on and quoted. The final aria challenges the church to seize the salvation offered by God's love. The final chorale answers with the first stanza of Martin Schallings I love you dearly, oh Lord .
For the introductory sinfonia , Bach added five wind parts to the nine solo strings in his 3rd Brandenburg Concerto . He was able to use so many players because he had started to lead the Collegium musicum founded by Telemann , a civic association of people interested in music whose members also participated in church music. Bach performed the cantata for the first time on June 6, 1729, noting the year in the score.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is unusually rich with three soloists, alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir only in the final chorale, two corno da caccia , two oboes , waist (tenor oboe), three solo violins , three solo violas , three solo Violoncellos , two violins, viola and basso continuo .
- Sinfonia
- Aria (alto): I love the Most High with all my mind
- Recitativo (tenor): O love, which is not the same
- Aria (bass): Grab hold of salvation
- Chorale: I love you dearly, Lord
music
The cantata begins with a weighty sinfonia that Bach developed from the first movement of his 3rd Brandenburg Concerto , which he presumably had already composed in Weimar . He extended the dense set of nine solo strings by two parts for corno da caccia, two for oboe, doubled by violins, and one for waist doubled by viola.
In the first aria, two obbligato oboes introduce themes that the voice picks up. The recitative is accompanied by the strings and is reminiscent of the cast of the Brandenburg Concerto. In the second aria, the violins and viola are combined into a powerful obbligato part. The cantata ends with a four-part set of the well-known melody that Bach used to end his St. John Passion with the third stanza of the chorale, “Oh Lord, let your dear Engelein”.
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 5 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Julia Hamari , Aldo Baldin , Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1984
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk · Complete Cantatas · Les Cantates, Episode / Vol. 40 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Kurt Equiluz , Robert Holl , Teldec 1987
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 26: Long Melford For Whit Sunday For Whit Monday , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Nathalie Stutzmann , Christoph Genz , Panajotis Iconomou, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- Bach Edition Vol. 21 - Cantatas Vol. 12 , Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Sytse Buwalda, Nico van der Meel, Bas Ramselaar, Brilliant Classics 2000
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 19 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz, Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 2003
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 50 - Man singing with joy, Cantatas 49 145 149 174 (Cantatas from Leipzig 1726-29) , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij , BIS 2011
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 JSBachs . 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 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89948-073-2
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- I love the Most High with all my mind, BWV 174 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 174 I love the Most High with all my mind by Bach Cantatas (English)
- I love the Most High with all my heart on the Bach.de website
- BWV 174 I love the Most High with all my heart Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Christoph Wolff : The cantatas of the period 1726-1731 and of the Picander cycle (1728-29) (PDF; 237 kB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 12-13. 2003. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ↑ I love you dearly, Lord at Bach Cantatas (English)
- ↑ a b c Klaus Hofmann: I love the highest with all my heart / (I Love the Highest With All My Heart), BWV 174 (PDF; 2.0 MB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 7. 2011. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for Whit Monday / Holy Trinity, Long Melford (PDF; 88 kB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 6. 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
