Don't get angry, oh soul
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Don't get angry, oh soul | |
| BWV: | 186 (186a) |
| Occasion: | 7th Sunday after Trinity (Advent) |
| Year of origin: | 1723 (1716) |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig ( Weimar ) |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | S, A, T, B |
| Choir: | S, A, T, B |
| Instruments : | If; Cor Angl; Str; BC with Fg |
| text | |
| Salomon Franck | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Anger yourself, oh soul, not BWV 186, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . It was written in Leipzig in 1723 on the basis of an Advent cantata BWV 186a from Bach's Weimar period for the 7th Sunday after Trinity and performed for the first time on July 11, 1723.
Origin and text
Weimar
The cantata is based on a cantata text by Salomon Franck for the third Sunday of Advent , published in 1717 in Evangelical Sundays and Festive Day Andachten . The poem contained movements 1, 3, 5, 8 and 10 of the later work and another final chorale by Ludwig Helmbold . Bach composed the work, BWV 186a, in Weimar in 1716, where it was performed on December 13, 1716.
- Coro: Don't get angry, oh soul (1st of BWV 186)
- Aria: Are you the one to come (3.)
- Aria: Messiah can be remembered (5.)
- Aria: The Lord wants to embrace the poor (8.)
- Aria: Leave soul, no suffering (10.)
- Chorale: Whether I have to put up with it
A reconstruction of the cantata was published by Diethard Hellmann in 1963 .
Leipzig
Since the tempus clausum was observed in Leipzig in Advent and no cantatas were performed, Bach could not perform the work there in Advent. He reworked it into a cantata in two parts for the 7th Sunday after Trinity, just as he had immediately expanded Heart and Mouth and Action and Life for July 2nd, 1723. He added recitatives , changed the texts of the arias slightly, replaced the final chorale with verse 11 of the chorale Es ist das Heil unskommen (1523) by Paul Speratus, and added verse 12 of this chorale as the end of part 1 of the cantata.
The readings for Sunday are Rom 6,19-23 LUT and Mk 8,1-9 LUT , the feeding of the 4000. The recitatives therefore mention lack , hunger or taste and see .
Occupation and structure
The cantata is composed for four soloists, four-part choir, two oboes , waist (tenor oboe ), strings and basso continuo with bassoon . The eleven movements are divided into two parts, which are played before and after the sermon.
- Coro: Don't be angry, oh soul
- Recitative (bass): The servant figure, the need, the lack
- Aria (bass): Are you the one to help me
- Recitative (tenor): Oh, that a Christian is so much
- Aria (tenor, oboe and violins): My Savior lets himself be remembered
- Chorale Whether it started as if he didn't want
to finish the sermon: - Recitative (tenor): The world is the great desert
- Aria (soprano, violins): The Lord wants to embrace the poor
- Recitative (Alto): Now the world may pass with its lust
- Aria (soprano, alto, violins, oboes and waist): Let alone, soul, no suffering
- Chorale: Hope was the right time
music
The opening choir is in rondo form , ABAB A. Part A deals with the first line of text, Part B with lines 2 to 4. Part A is a complex structure of instrumental and vocal composition. The instruments begin with an eight-bar sinfonia, followed by a short vocal "motto" that the orchestra repeats. Only then does a fugue begin in the voices, which is embedded in the material of the sinfonia. The first repetition of A is shortened in the sinfonia, the second repetition begins right away with the fugue. In great contrast, part B is set a cappella and partly homophonic .
The cast of the four arias increases, and the low voices begin, while the high voices are only used in part 2. The first aria is accompanied only by the continuo, the following two in a trio movement, the last aria is a duet with orchestra. In the tenor aria “the oboe indulges in a joyful motif”. The last aria - a duet for soprano and alto - has the character of a gigue , the voices are often performed in parallel to illustrate: Let, soul, no suffering part from Jesus . Albert Schweitzer wrote that this duet “breathes Dionysian joy”.
The four recitatives all end as arioso .
The closing chorales, movements 6 and 11, have the same music in the form of a chorale fantasy. The orchestra plays a concerto in which the voices are embedded. The soprano sings the cantus firmus , while the lower voices counterpoint in faster note values, sometimes imitating.
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 43 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Kurt Equiluz , Philippe Huttenlocher , Hänssler 1977
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 10 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , Helmut Wittek (soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor), Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Robert Holl , Teldec 1989
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 6 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Ruth Ziesak , Elisabeth von Magnus , Paul Agnew , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1997
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 4 , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Katharine Fuge , Richard Wyn Roberts , Kobie van Rensburg , Stephan Loges , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Neumann, Werner : 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, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig)
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- Data and text of the Weimar version from Bach Digital
- Data, text and sources of the Leipzig version at Bach Digital
- Don't get angry, oh soul, BWV 186 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- The time, the day and the years on the Bach website
- Cantata BWV 186 Anger you, o soul, not in Bach Cantatas (English)
- Cantata BWV 186a angry, oh soul, not in Bach Cantatas (English)
- BWV 186 anger yourself, oh soul, don't and BWV 186a anger yourself, oh soul, don't Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Notes in the public domain of Anger dich, o Seele, not in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Alfred Dürr . 1971. "The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach", Bärenreiter
- ^ John Eliot Gardiner: For the Seventh Sunday after Trinity St. Mary's, Haddington ( en , PDF) Soli Deo Gloria. 2009. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Albert Schweitzer: Johann Sebastian Bach . 1908; Reprint Breitkopf and Härtel, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-7651-0034-X .
