Whoever believes and is baptized
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Whoever believes and is baptized | |
| BWV: | 37 |
| Occasion: | Ascension of Christ |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Oa 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| unknown, Philipp Nicolai , Johann Kolrose | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Whoever believes and is baptized ( BWV 37) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for Ascension Day and performed it for the first time on May 18, 1724 .
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata for the feast of the Ascension of Christ . The prescribed readings for the feast day were Acts 1,1–11 LUT , the prologue, last promise and ascension of Jesus, and Mk 16,14–20 LUT , mission and baptismal command, ascension.
An unknown lyricist began with a quotation from the Gospel, verse 16. He did not address the ascension, but focused on the Lutheran justification of the baptized Christian by faith, dividing the text into two sections, each with one Choral concluded, in movement 3 the fifth stanza from Philipp Nicolais “ How beautifully the morning star shines ” (1599) and in the final movement 6 the fourth stanza from Johann Kolrose's Ich dank dich, dear Herre (c. 1535). The first section considers the love of Jesus, for which the chant thanks, the second section explains like a sermon based on Paul ( Rom 3:28 LUT ) that good works alone are not enough for a blessed life if they are not carried out by the Belief are founded. The final chorale is another thank you song.
Klaus Hofmann explains that the cantatas of the two previous Sundays, Where are you going? and Verily, verily, I tell you , show the same text structure, which points to the same poet of these works. Werner Neumann suspects that it could have been Christian Weiss.
Bach first performed the cantata on May 18, 1724. It was already appreciated in the 19th century.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of four vocal soloists ( soprano , alto , tenor and bass ), four-part choir, two oboes d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo . The cantata contains six movements.
- Coro: Whoever believes and is baptized
- Aria (tenor): Faith is the pledge of love
- Chorale (Soprano, Alto): Lord God the Father, my strong hero '
- Recitativo (bass): You mortals, you ask
- Aria (bass): Faith creates wings for the soul
- Chorale: give faith to me
music
Although the verse on which the first sentence is based is spoken by Jesus himself in the Gospel, Bach lets the choir sing it as if the Christians had already internalized the instruction to go into all the world. The movement begins with an extended instrumental introduction in which three melodic lines appear simultaneously, one motif in the oboes that is later adopted by the voices, a second in the violins that recalls Luther's song These are the sacred ten commandments , and one third in the continuo, which also appears in the chorale How beautifully the morning star shines . In two sections, the voices are embedded in a repetition of the introduction.
Movement 2 is an aria for which a solo violin part has not been preserved, as the New Bach Edition states. In movement 3 Bach processes the chorale in the older form of the choral concerto , as used by Johann Hermann Schein . The melody appears changed where certain words should be emphasized. The following recitative is accompanied by the strings. They also play in the last aria, while an oboe d'amore alternately joins and stays away, whereby Bach creates interesting sound effects. The final chorale is a four-part movement.
Recordings (selection)
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 37, BWV 76. Wilhelm Ehmann , Westfälische Kantorei , German Bach soloists , Nelly van der Spek, Frauke Haasemann, Johannes Hoefflin, Wilhelm Pommerien. Cantata 1965.
- JS Bach: The cantatas (2). Hans Grischkat , Swabian Singing Circle Stuttgart , Bach Orchestra Stuttgart , Csilla Zentai, Elisabeth Wacker, Kurt Huber, Michael Schopper . FSM Candide, 1972.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 3. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Vienna Boys Choir , Chorus Viennensis , Soloist of the Vienna Boys Choir, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Ruud van der Meer. Teldec , 1974.
- JS Bach: Ascension Cantatas. John Eliot Gardiner , Nancy Argenta , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Michael Chance , Anthony Rolfe Johnson , Stephen Varcoe . Archive production, 1996.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 9. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Sibylla Rubens , Bernhard Landauer , Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1998.
- Bach Edition Vol. 4 - Cantatas Vol. 1. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar. Brilliant Classics , 1999.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 19 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1724. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita, Robin Blaze , Makoto Sakurada, Stephan MacLeod. UP, 2001.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 and Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04431-4 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas Johann Sebastian Bach . Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 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; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig), ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), 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 “Whoever believes and is baptized” BWV 37 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Materials for the cantata “Whoever believes and is baptized” from Bach Digital at the Leipzig Bach Archive
- Cantata BWV 37 “Whoever believes and is baptized” by Bach Cantatas (English) History, instrumentation, sources for text and music, translations into several languages, recordings and discussion
- Anyone who believes and is baptized on the private website bach.de
- BWV 37 Whoever believes and is baptized text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Alfred Dürr : The Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach , 4th edition, Volume 1, Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, 1981, ISBN 3-423-04080-7 .
- ↑ a b Klaus Hofmann : Whoever believes and is baptized / (He that believeth and is baptized), BWV 37 (PDF; 4.1 MB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 15-16. 2001. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
- ^ R. Wustmann, W. Neumann: Johann Sebastian Bach. All cantata texts. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1956.
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 / Cantatas Vol 28: City of London ( en , PDF; 796 kB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 5-6. 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
