Prepare the way, prepare the way!
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Prepare the way, prepare the way! | |
| BWV: | 132 |
| Occasion: | 4th Advent |
| Year of origin: | 1715 |
| Place of origin: | Weimar |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | If; Str; BC |
| text | |
| Salomon Franck | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Prepare the way, prepare the way! ( BWV 132) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Weimar in 1715 for the 4th Advent on December 22, 1715.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata as concertmaster at the court of Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar for the 4th Advent and performed it for the first time on December 22nd, 1715 in the castle church. The prescribed readings were Phil 4,4–7 LUT and Joh 1,19–28 LUT , the testimony of John the Baptist. The cantata text was written by the court poet Salomon Franck and published in 1715 in Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer . Franck finished the cantata with the fifth stanza of Elisabeth Cruciger's chorale Herr Christ, der unig Gotts Sohn . In the opening aria, Franck, like the Gospel, refers to Isaiah: Prepare the Lord for the way . The poet also includes baptism and addresses the individual Christian as a member of Christ.
Occupation and structure
Like other cantatas from Weimar, the cantata is small with four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , oboe , two violins , viola and basso continuo . A four-part choir is only needed in the final chorale, if at all. The music of the chant is lost. It is possible that it was written on a separate sheet of paper, as is the case with the cantata Nur each his own, written four weeks earlier . Instead, you usually play the final chorale of the same name , which you call yourselves from Christ (1725).
- 1. Aria (soprano): Prepare the way, prepare the path!
- 2. Recitativo (tenor): Do you want to call yourself God's child and Christ's brother
- 3. Aria (bass): Who are you? Ask your conscience
- 4. Recitativo (alto, strings): I want, my God, to confess freely to you
- 5. Aria (alto, violin): Christ's members, oh think about it
- 6. Chorale: kill us through your goodness
music
The first aria in da capo form in a swinging 6/8 time is accompanied by all instruments.
The tenor recitative contains longer arioso sections, the voice and continuo are sometimes imitated as a picture for the follow-up. They run parallel to the words "that he may unite with you in faith".
In the bass aria the question of Johannes Who are you? Jesus placed in the mouth, who presented it to the listener.
The expressive alto recitative is accompanied by the strings. A solo violin dominates the following aria, perhaps inspired by the words “Christ gave red purple and white silk to the new dress”.
A four-part movement for the final chorale can be taken from you, whom you call yourself from Christ .
Recordings
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 61 & BWV 132. Helmut Kahlhöfer , Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke , German Bach soloists , Ingeborg Reichelt , Hildegard Rütgers, Theo Altmeyer , Eduard Wollitz . Cantate, 1966.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 1 - Advent and Christmas. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Edith Mathis , Anna Reynolds , Peter Schreier , Theo Adam . Archive production, 1972.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 60. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Kurt Equiluz , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1977.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 7. Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt-Consort , Sebastian Hennig (soloist of the Boys Choir Hannover), René Jacobs , Marius van Altena, Max van Egmond . Teldec, 1983.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 2. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Barbara Schlick , Kai Wessel , Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1995.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 7. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Ingrid Schmithüsen, Yoshikazu Mera , Makoto Sakurada , Peter Kooij . BIS Records, 1997.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 13: Cologne / Lüneburg. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Brigitte Geller, Michael Chance , Jan Kobow , Dietrich Henschel . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol. 9. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Gerlinde Sämann, Petra Noskaiová, Christoph Genz , Jan van der Crabben. Accent, 2008.
- Prepare the way, prepare the way! Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Eva Oltiványi, Markus Forster, Julius Pfeifer, Wolf Matthias Friedrich. Klara Obermüller (reflection). DVD. Gallus Media, 2006.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach. The cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas JSBachs . 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 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig)
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- Prepare the way, prepare the train !, BWV 132 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 132 Prepare the way, prepare the way! at Bach Cantatas (English)
- Prepare the way, prepare the way! on the Bach website
- BWV 132 Prepare the way, prepare the way! Text, structure and line-up on Walter F. Bischof's personal homepage at the University of Alberta
