Oh God, how many a heartache, BWV 58
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Oh God, how many a heartache | |
| BWV: | 58 |
| Occasion: | Sunday after New Years |
| Year of origin: | 1727? |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Choral cantata, dialogue |
| Singing voices: | S, B |
| Instruments : | 2Ob Ot 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Martin Moller , Christoph Birkmann , Martin Behm | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Oh God, how many Herzeleid ( BWV 58) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bachs for the Sunday after New Year .
Emergence
The cantata probably originated in Leipzig in 1727 and was reworked in 1734 or 1735. The first performance fell on January 5, 1727.
In the first movement the first stanza of the song Oh God, like some Herzeleid by Martin Moller (1587) is used, the last contains the second stanza of Martin Behm's chorale O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht from 1610, which is also the basis for the eponymous Mourning Cantata (BWV 118) is. The internal sentences are ascribed to the theologian and Bach student Christoph Birkmann (1703–1771).
Subject
The Gospel of the Sunday after New Year tells of the flight of the Holy Family from Herod to Egypt ( Mt 2,13-15 LUT ). The cantata interprets this story as the world's struggle against faith. As a rule, analogous to other dialogue cantatas, the soprano is interpreted as the voice of the “believing soul”, the bass as the voice of God or Christ . Bach's dramatic and high-contrast musical design supports this interpretation.
occupation
- Singing parts: soprano , bass , not more precisely characterized as soloistic or choral
- Instruments: violin I / II, violin solo, viola , oboe I / II and oboe da caccia ( colla parte with the strings), basso continuo
construction
- Choral e Aria S, B (Ob I / II, Oc, Vl I / II, Va, Bc): Oh God, how many a heartache
- Recitativo B (Bc): The bad world will haunt you
- Aria S (Vs, Bc): I am happy in my suffering
- Recitativo S (Bc): The world cannot leave it
- Choral e Aria S, B (Ob I / II, Oc, Vl I / II, Va, Bc): I've got heavy rice for myself
Recordings (selection)
- CD
- JS Bach: Dialog Cantatas for Soprano & Bass - BWV 32, 57, 58 with Hana Blažíková , Dominik Wörner , Kirchheimer BachConsort under the direction of Alfredo Bernardini . cpo, 2016.
- DVD
- Oh God, how many a heartache. Cantata BWV 58. Rudolf Lutz , Orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Gerlinde Sämann (soprano), Peter Harvey (bass). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Arthur Godel and Karl Graf. Gallus Media, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christine Blanken: A Cantata-Text Cycle of 1728 from Nuremberg: a Preliminary Report on a Discovery relating to JS Bach's so-called 'Third Annual Cantata Cycle'. In: Understanding Bach , 10/2015, pp. 9–30, especially p. 22; accessed on the Bach Network on November 19, 2015.
- ↑ Product information ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on May 16, 2016.
Web links
- Materials for the cantata BWV 58 at Bach Digital of the Bach Archive Leipzig
- Structure and full text of the cantata Oh God, like many Herzeleid on the website of the University of Alberta
- Cantata, BWV 58 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
