They will all come from Sheba
Bach cantata | |
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They will all come from Sheba | |
BWV: | 65 |
Occasion: | Feast of Epiphany |
Year of origin: | 1724 |
Place of origin: | Leipzig |
Genus: | Church cantata |
Solo : | TB |
Choir: | SATB |
Instruments : | 2Co 2 Fl 2 Oc 2Vn Va Bc |
AD : | about 17 min |
text | |
Unknown poet, Paul Gerhardt | |
List of Bach cantatas |
They will all come from Saba ( BWV 65) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Origin and Words
Bach wrote the cantata to end his first Christmas season in Leipzig on the festival of Epiphany (apparition of the Lord). The prescribed readings were Isa 60,1–6 LUT and Mt 2,1–12 LUT , the wise men from the east who bring gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts to the newborn Jesus . The unknown lyricist is possibly the same as for the Christmas cantatas listed immediately before : Darzu the Son of God appeared and see, what love the Father has shown us . It begins with the last verse of the reading, Isaiah's prophecy. Its fulfillment describes, as the second movement, the fourth stanza of the chorale A child born in Bethlehem (after Puer natus in Bethlehem , 1543): The kings of Saba came . The first recitative concludes that it is the duty of every Christian to bring a gift too, namely his own heart. This becomes the subject of the following aria . The second recitative compares faith with gold, prayer with frankincense and patience with myrrh; this too becomes the subject of the following aria. The final chorale is the 10th stanza of Paul Gerhardt's chorale I have in God's heart and mind , which Bach later arranged in the chorale cantata BWV 92 of the same name .
Occupation and structure
Bach headlined the cantata as follows:
- JJ Festo Epiphan: Concerto. à 2 Core du Chasse. 2 Hautb: da Caccia. | due to Fiauti 2 Violini è Viola with 4 Voci
She is festively occupied. The two male solo voices, tenor and bass , and the four-part choir are accompanied by two horns , two recorders , two oboi da caccia , two violins , viola and basso continuo . Bach placed a pair of horns in his 1724 Christmas cantata, Praise be to you, Jesus Christ, BWV 91 , and in Part IV, Fallt mit Danken, joins his Christmas Oratorio with praise .
- Coro: They'll all be from Saba
- Chorale: The kings from Saba came
- Recitativo (bass): What Isaiah foresaw there
- Aria (bass, oboe da caccia): Gold from Ophir is too bad
- Recitativo (tenor): Do not disdain, you, the light of my soul
- Aria (tenor, all instruments): Make me your own
- Chorale: Well, my God, I'll fall for you
music
The opening choir describes how "all", not just the three wise men, gather and move to worship. Horn signals call and remain present during the movement. Canonical and imitative developments mark the growth of the crowd. The middle section is an extended choral fugue , framed by two sections in which the voices are embedded in a repetition of the instrumental introduction. In connection with his Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, John Eliot Gardiner noted that the instrumentation mimics the music of the Near East: recorders in the high registers, which are often associated with music from the Middle East, oboes da caccia (in tenor register) for the shawl-like reed instruments ( Salamiya and Zurna ) (“the high pitches often associated with oriental music and the oboes da caccia (in tenor register) to evoke the shawm-like double-reed instruments ...”).
The old chorale, which tells about the coming of the kings from Saba, has four voices. Both recitatives are secco and the arias have no da capo . The first recitative ends as an arioso on the words: "because I cannot bring anything noble". This modesty is expressed in the following aria through the low register of the oboes da caccia and the bass part. The tenor recitative ends with the words: “The greatest abundance of wealth will one day be in heaven for me”. To show this abundance, the following aria is accompanied by all instruments that appear both in concert and together. The final chorale is always sung to the melody of Was mein Gott wants, das g'scheh , which Bach often used later, for example in his chorale cantata of the same name and as movement 25 of his St. Matthew Passion .
Recordings
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 - Cantatas I. Günther Ramin , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , Gert Lutze , Johannes Oettel . Eterna, 1952.
- JS Bach: Cantata BWV 65. Marcel Couraud , Stuttgart Bach Choir , Badische Staatskapelle , Theo Altmeyer , Franz Crass . Philips , mid-1950s?
- Les Grandes Cantates de JS Bach, Vol. 6. Fritz Werner , Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim , Helmut Krebs , Franz Kelch . Erato, 1959.
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 46 & BWV 65. Helmut Kahlhöfer , Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke , Barmen Chamber Orchestra, Georg Jelden , Theo Altmeyer , Jakob Stämpfli . Cantate, 1960.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 1 - Advent and Christmas. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Ernst Haefliger , Theo Adam . Archive production, 1967.
- JS Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas, Vol. 4. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Vienna , Kurt Equiluz , Ruud van der Meer . Teldec , 1977.
- The Bach Cantata, Vol. 21. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Adalbert Kraus , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1979.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 8. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1998.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 18: New York. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , James Gilchrist , Peter Harvey . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 21. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , James Gilchrist , Peter Kooij . UP , 2002.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol. 4. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Elisabeth Hermans , Petra Noskaiová , Jan Kobow , Jan van der Crabben . Accent, 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Use of Horns in BWV 65 "They will all come from Saba" ( English , PDF; 1.2 MB) NBA . 2010. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
- ^ Brian Robins: Cantata No. 65, “They will all come from Saba,” BWV 65 ( English ) Allmusic . 2010. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
- ^ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for Epiphany / Nikolaikirche, Leipzig ( English ) solideogloria.co.uk. 2010. 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 December 28, 2010.
Web links
- They will all be from Saba, BWV 65 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Structure and complete text of the cantata
- Cantata BWV 65 They will all come from Saba in bach-cantatas (English)
- They will all come from Saba on the Bach website
- BWV 65 They will all come from Saba Text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- They will all come from Sheba. Cantata BWV 65. With Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Nederlandse Bachvereniging , Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor). At All of Bach