Oh! I see now that I am going to the wedding
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Oh! I see now that I am going to the wedding | |
| BWV: | 162 |
| Occasion: | 20th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1715 or 1716 |
| Place of origin: | Weimar |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | S, A, T, B |
| Choir: | (S, A, T, B) |
| Instruments : | (Ct;) Str; BC |
| text | |
| Salomon Franck | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Oh! I see now that I'm going to the wedding ( BWV 162) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Weimar for the 20th Sunday after Trinity .
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity as concertmaster at the court of Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar in Weimar, where it was performed for the first time in the castle church, on November 3, 1715 (after Alfred Dürr ) or on October 25, 1716 (after Christoph Wolff and others).
The prescribed readings were Eph 5.15–21 LUT and Mt 22.1–14 LUT , the parable of the royal wedding . The text of the cantata comes from the court poet Salomon Franck and was published in 1715 in Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer . He relates to the gospel and emphasizes the importance of accepting God's loving invitation. Franck's language is rich in contrasts, such as soul poison and heavenly bread , and biblical images such as heaven is his throne according to Isa 66.1 LUT . The final chorale is the seventh stanza of All People Must Die by Johann Rosenmüller (1652).
Bach performed the cantata again in Leipzig , on October 10, 1723 in a revised version, this time with a corno da tirarsi , a slide trumpet. Bach's score has not survived, and individual parts also seem to be missing.
Occupation and structure
Like other cantatas from the Weimar period, the work is set for a small ensemble, for soprano , alto , tenor and bass (soloists who can also perform the final chorale), two violins , viola and basso continuo , and in Leipzig also corno di tirarsi and bassoon .
- 1. Aria (bass): Oh! I see now that I am going to the wedding
- 2. Recitativo (tenor): O great wedding feast
- 3. Aria (soprano): Jesus, fountain of all graces
- 4. Recitativo (old): My Jesus, do not leave me
- 5. Aria Duetto (alto, tenor): I am delighted in my God
- 6. Chorale: Oh, I have already seen
music
The cantata begins with a bass aria , accompanied by three instruments in a polyphonic setting, two violins and a viola, which was later reinforced by the slide trumpet in Leipzig. The characteristic motif on the opening words pervades the sentence. According to Dürr, the soprano aria seems to be lacking an obligatory accompaniment. Robert Levin reconstructed a version for flute and oboe d'amore for the Monteverdi Choir's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage project . The duet is also accompanied only by the continuo, but appears complete in this form. The melody of the final chorale is rare elsewhere, but appears in Weimar not only in this work, but also in a chorale arrangement by Johann Gottfried Walther .
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 54 , Helmuth Rilling , Frankfurter Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Alyce Rogers , Kurt Equiluz , Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1976
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 8 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Wiener Sängerknaben , Concentus Musicus Wien , Knabensopran, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Robert Holl , Teldec 1986
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 3 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Barbara Schlick , Elisabeth von Magnus , Paul Agnew , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1995
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 11 , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Magdalena Kožená , Sara Mingardo , Christoph Genz , Peter Harvey , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of JS Bach's Cantatas , 1947, 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4
- Hans-Joachim Schulze: The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas . Leipzig: Evangelical publishing company; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verl.)
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Braatz: Bach's Weimar Cantatas ( English ) bach-cantatas. 2005. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works Jesu, der du meine Seele Bach Cantatas website, accessed on July 11, 2018.
- ^ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity San Lorenzo, Genoa ( English ) solideogloria.co.uk. 2000. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
Web links
- Oh! I see, now that I am going to the wedding, BWV 162 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 162 Oh! I see now that I'm going to the wedding on bach-cantatas (English)
- Oh! I see BWV 162 on the Bach website now that I am going to the wedding
- Oh! I see now that I am going to the University of Alberta wedding
