Bring glory to the Lord by his name
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Bring glory to the Lord by his name | |
| BWV: | 148 |
| Occasion: | 17th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1723? |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | AT |
| Choir: | S, A, T, B |
| Instruments : | Tr; Ob I / II / III; Str; BC |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Bring the Lord honor his name ( BWV 148) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the 17th Sunday after Trinity , probably September 19, 1723.
Origin and Words
Bach probably wrote the cantata in his first year in Leipzig in 1723 for the 17th Sunday after Trinity , September 19, 1723. The prescribed readings are Eph 4.1–6 LUT and Lk 14.1–11 LUT , the healing of a dropsy on the Sabbath . However, the cantata does not refer to healing, but to the honor due to God on the Sabbath. The text of the opening chorus is Ps 29,2 LUT . The cantata poem is based on a poem in six stanzas, Way, you earthly business , which Picander published in his first sacred collection in 1725 in Edible Thoughts . Alfred Dürr nevertheless sees reasons to date the cantata to 1723 and considers it possible that the cantata text preceded the poem.
Occupation and structure
In keeping with the festive theme, the cantata is richly orchestrated; two soloists, alto and tenor , a four-part choir, trumpet , three oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo make music .
- Coro: Bring honor to the Lord by his name
- Aria (tenor, violin): I rush to hear the lessons of life
- Recitativo (alto, strings): Like the stag screams for fresh water
- Aria (alto, oboe): Your mouth and heart are open to you
- Recitativo (tenor): Remain in me too, my God
- Chorale: Amen at all hours
music
The opening choir begins with an instrumental symphonia . The choir sings two fugues on different themes, both of which are derived from the beginning of the sinfonia. The trumpet plays a fifth voice in the fugues. The movement ends with a choir built into the sinfonia.
In the first aria , the solo violin illustrates both the joy in God and the urgency mentioned in the text. The alto recitative is accompanied by strings. In the following aria, the almost mystical unity of the soul with God is expressed by an unusual instrumentation with two oboe d'amore and oboe da caccia . The final chorale is four-part.
Recordings
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 140 & BWV 148 , Wolfgang Gönnenwein , Süddeutscher Madrigalchor , Consortium Musicum , Janet Baker , Theo Altmeyer , EMI 1967
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 4 - Sundays after Trinity I , Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Julia Hamari , Peter Schreier , archive production 1977
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 52 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Helen Watts , Kurt Equiluz , Hänssler 1977
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 8 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , Leonhardt-Consort , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Teldec 1985
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz , Gerd Türk , Antoine Marchand 1997
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 14 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1723 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk , BIS 2000
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 4 , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Frances Bourne , Mark Padmore , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas Johann Sebastian Bach. 5th unchanged edition. Breitkopf Haertel, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas. Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt et al., Leipzig et al. 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 978-3-476-02127-4
- Andreas Marti : «... to hear the teaching of life». An analysis of the three cantatas for the 17th Sunday after Trinity by Johann Sebastian Bach from a musical, rhetorical and theological point of view . Bern 1981, ISBN 978-3-261-04867-7
Web links
- Bring honor of his name to the Lord, BWV 148 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 148 Bring the Lord honor of his name, BWV 148 in bach-cantatas (English)
- Bring honor to the Lord, BWV 148 on the Bach website
- BWV 148 Bringet the honor of his name Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
