But in the evening of the same Sabbath
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| But in the evening of the same Sabbath | |
| BWV: | 42 |
| Occasion: | Quasimodogeniti |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Ob Fg 2Vn Va Bc |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
In the evening of the same Sabbath ( BWV 42) there is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it for the first Sunday after Easter, Quasimodogeniti, and performed it for the first time in Leipzig on April 8, 1725.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata in Leipzig in 1725 for Quasimodogeniti on Sunday . In his second cantata cycle, since the first Sunday after Trinity 1724, he had composed exclusively choral cantatas and also performed a choral cantata with BWV 4 at Easter 1725, but after Easter he switched back to lyrically freer cantatas with this cantata. It begins with an extended symphony .
The prescribed readings for Sunday were 1 Joh 5,4-10 LUT and Joh 20,19–31 LUT , the appearance of Jesus to the disciples in Jerusalem, first without, then with Thomas . The unknown lyricist begins with verse 19 of the Gospel . As sentence 4 he used the first stanza of the chorale Verage not, o heap small (1632) by Jacob Fabricius , and as a conclusion two stanzas that appeared to us, Lord, together with Luther's receipt, at your word : Grant us peace graciously , Luther German version of Da pacem Domine (1531) and Gib unsern Fürsten und all'r Authorities , a stanza by Johann Walter (1566), which goes back to 1 Tim 2,2 LUT and closes with Amen.
According to the biblical quotation from the Gospel of John , the poet refers in sentence 3 to a word from Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew , "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them", Mt 18.20 LUT .
Bach performed the cantata at least twice in Leipzig, on April 1, 1731 and either on April 1, 1742 or on April 7, 1743.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of four soloists ( soprano , alto , tenor and bass ), a four-part choir only in the final chorale, two oboes , bassoon , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
The reason for the economical use of the choir may be that it is very busy during Holy Week and Easter with the cantata How beautifully shines the morning star, BWV 1 , the St. John Passion and the Easter cantata Christ lay in death bands, BWV 4 had been.
- Sinfonia
- Recitativo (tenor, bassoon): In the evening of the same Sabbath
- Aria (alto, oboe, bassoon): Where two and three are gathered
- Aria (soprano, tenor, bassoon): Don't despair, oh little bunch
- Recitativo (bass, bassoon): One can see a fine example of this
- Aria (bass, violins, bassoon): Jesus is a shield of his own
- Chorale: Graciously grant us peace
music
Bach probably took the extensive introductory sinfonia from earlier composed music. Alfred Dürr suspects an instrumental concert. It is a double-choir "concerto a due cori" in which the strings give a concertino of the woodwind instruments oboes and bassoon. The middle section begins with a surprisingly vocal new motif for oboes and bassoon, which Bach himself called cantabile.
The biblical quotation is sung in the recitative by the tenor as the evangelist , accompanied by the continuo in fast repeating notes that perhaps illustrate the fearful heartbeat of the disciples who are hiding.
In movement 3, an aria marked adagio, the bassoon pounding remains, but the strings hold long chords and the oboes play wide-ranging melodies. According to Dürr, the template could be the same concerto as for the Sinfonia.
Bach composed the chorale text of movement 4 as a duet, which is only accompanied by bassoon and continuo. Parts of the usual chorale melody Come to me, speak God's Son sometimes seem, but very ornate. The Bach researcher Terry interprets that the obbligato bassoon accompanies a chorale melody that does not actually sound in order to show the church's hiddenness in the world.
In a recitative that almost leads to an arioso , the bass prepares the last aria, which is accompanied by the divided violins and continuo. The subject is once again the contrast between the unrest in the world and the peace with Jesus.
The two stanzas of the final chorale are set in four parts.
Recordings
- LP / CD
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 - Cantatas IV. Günther Ramin , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester , Marianne Basner , Gerda Schriever , Gert Lutze , Otto Siegl . Berlin Classics, 1953.
- JS Bach: Cantatas No. 42, No. 35. Hermann Scherchen , Vienna Academy Chamber Choir , Vienna Radio Orchestra , Teresa Stich-Randall , Maureen Forrester , Alexander Young , John Boyden . Westminster / Baroque Music Club, 1964.
- JS Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 3. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Vienna Boys 'Choir , Chorus Viennensis , Concentus Musicus Vienna , soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Ruud van der Meer . Teldec , 1974.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 31. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Julia Hamari , Peter Schreier , Philippe Huttenlocher . Hänssler, 1981.
- JS Bach: I had a lot of distress. Philippe Herreweghe , Collegium Vocale Gent , La Chapelle Royale , Barbara Schlick , Gérard Lesne , Howard Crook , Peter Kooij . Harmonia Mundi France, 1990.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 23: Arnstadt / Echternach. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Gillian Keith , Daniel Taylor , Charles Daniels , Stephen Varcoe . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Deborah York , Bogna Bartosz , Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2001.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 36 (Cantatas from Leipzig 1725). Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , James Gilchrist , Dominik Wörner . UP , 2006.
- DVD
- But in the evening of the same Sabbath . Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Ulrike Hofbauer , Irène Friedli , Bernhard Berchtold , Markus Volpert , Gallus Media, St. Gallen 2010
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 House; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evangelical publishing house), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verlag)
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006 ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- Cantata BWV 42 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 42 In the evening of the same Sabbath text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Cantata BWV 42 “In the evening of the same Sabbath” on bach-cantatas.com
- “In the evening of the same Sabbath” on the Bach website
- BWV 42 “In the evening of the same Sabbath” University of Vermont
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Julian Mincham: Chapter 42 BWV 4 & BWV 42, each coming with a sinfonia. ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2010.
- ↑ Christoph Wolff: The world of Bach cantatas. Metzler / Bärenreiter, Stuttgart / Kassel, 3 volumes, special edition 2006, ISBN 3-476-02127-0 .
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the First Sunday after Easter (Quasimodogeniti) Johann Sebastian Bach Church, Arnstadt ( English ) Soli Deo Gloria. 2007. Archived from the original on July 28, 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 April 26, 2011.
