O fair day, desired time
Bach cantata | |
---|---|
O fair day, desired time | |
BWV: | 210 |
Occasion: | wedding |
Year of origin: | 1738? |
Place of origin: | Leipzig |
Genus: | cantata |
Solo : | S. |
Instruments : | Fl; Oa; Str; BC |
text | |
unknown | |
List of Bach cantatas |
O sweet day, desired time ( BWV 210) is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for a wedding.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata for soprano solo in Leipzig for a wedding. All five arias and two recitatives go back to his homage cantata O pleasant melody . It is not known for what occasion Bach wrote the cantata. Werner Neumann assigned it to the wedding of Anna Regina Bose and Friedrich Heinrich Graf (April 3, 1742) and that of Christina Sibylla Bose and Johann Zacharias Richter (February 6, 1744), Herrmann von Hase to the wedding of Johanna Catharina Amalie Schatz and Friedrich Gottlob Zoller (August 11, 1746). According to the Leipzig musicologist Michael Maul , it could have been the wedding of the Prussian court councilor Georg E. Stahl (1741). The cantata text by an unknown poet speaks to an influential man who appreciates music. The parts for soprano and continuo are handwritten, probably as a present for the bride and groom. The text speaks of the relationship between music and conjugal love and ends in praise of the groom as the patron of music.
The cantata was probably performed at least twice during Bach's lifetime.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by soprano , flauto traverso , oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo . Bach referred to it as Cantata a Voce sola .
- Recitativo: O sweet day, desired time
- Aria (oboe d'amore, strings): Play, you soulful songs
- Recitativo: Yes, stop, you lively strings
- Aria (oboe d'amore, violin): Rest here, dull notes
- Recitativo: This is how one believes that music is seductive
- Aria (flute): Be silent, you flutes, be silent, you tones
- Recitativo: what air? what grave?
- Aria (oboe d'amore, 2 violins): Great patron, your pleasure
- Recitativo (flute, oboe d'amore, strings): Very dear man, so go on
- Aria: Be happy
music
Bach used all five arias, the first recitative and the beginning of the last recitative from his homage cantata O pleasant melody . The parts for soprano and flute are demanding, they require virtuosity in coloratura and trills and a three-stroke c sharp from the soprano . The movements are orchestrated differently in order to provide variety despite the restriction to one singing voice. The arias show a "decrescendo" (Alfred Dürr), a reduction in the number of instruments towards the central silence, their flutes, silent, their tones in which the singing voice and the flute perform as if in a duet. The following arias lead to a festive end in a crescendo .
Recordings
- JS Bach: Cantata No. 210 , Hermann Scherchen , Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Magda László, Westminster 1950
- JS Bach: Cantata BWV 210, Aria for Soprano , Helmut Winschermann , German Bach Soloists, Ursula Buckel , Cantate 1963
- Bach made in Germany Vol. VII - Secular Cantatas III , Peter Schreier , Kammerorchester Berlin, Lucia Popp , Eterna 1981
- Bach: Wedding Cantatas , Christopher Hogwood , The Academy of Ancient Music , Emma Kirkby , Decca 1996
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 5 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra , Lisa Larsson , Antoine Marchand 1996
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 66 , Helmuth Rilling , Sibylla Rubens , Hänssler 1998
- JS Bach: Wedding Cantatas , Reinhard Goebel , Musica Antiqua Köln , Christine Schäfer , Deutsche Grammophon 1999
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 1 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Carolyn Sampson , BIS 2003
- Live recording of the concert as part of Bach: vocal as a video series in HD . Franziska Bobe , soprano, Ensemble Stiftsbarock Stuttgart under Kay Johannsen , Stuttgart Castle Church, June 2018
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas JSBachs. 5th edition. Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 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 . (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig)
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-476-02127-0 .
Web links
- O holder day, desired time, BWV 210 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Text and sources at Bach digital
- Cantata BWV 210 O holder day, desired time at Bach Cantatas (English)
- O nice day, desired time on the Bach website
Individual evidence
- ^ Szymon Paczkowski: Bach and the Story of an “Aria tempo di Polonaise” for Joachim Friedrich Flemming. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. American Bach Society, 2006. (Institute of Musicology, Warsaw University) (English)