Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ | |
| BWV: | 116 |
| Occasion: | 25th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Co; 2 Oa; Str; BC |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ ( BWV 116) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the 25th Sunday after Trinity , November 26th, 1724.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata in 1724 in his second cycle of choral cantatas for the 25th Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on November 26th, 1724.
The prescribed readings were 1 Thess 4,13-18 LUT and Mt 24,25-28 LUT , the "great tribulation". The cantata text by an unknown lyricist is based exclusively on the chorale in seven stanzas Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ by Jakob Ebert (1601), which has a general relationship to the Gospel. The author kept the first and last stanzas, rewrote stanzas 2 to 4 to the corresponding movements of the cantata, and stanzas 5 and 6 to the fifth movement of the cantata.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is set for four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, horn , 2 oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: You Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ
- Aria (Alt): Oh, the need is inexpressible
- Recitativo (tenor): Remember, O Jesus
- Terzetto (soprano, tenor, bass): Oh, we confess our guilt
- Recitativo (alto): Oh, let's get through the sharp rods
- Chorale: Enlighten our minds and hearts
music
The opening choir is a chorale arrangement, the soprano sings the melody as cantus firmus in long notes, reinforced by the horn. It is embedded in an instrumental concerto with ritornelles and interludes, which are dominated by the solo violin. The treatment of the lower voices is different due to the text. Lines 1 and 2 and the final line 7 are set as homophonic blocks, in lines 3 and 4 the lower voices run in imitation, in lines 5 and 6 in animated movement.
The alto aria is accompanied by the oboe d'amore, which is treated like a second vocal part. The following recitative begins as secco, but the idea Remember, oh Jesus, that you are still called a Prince of Peace! is accompanied by a quotation from the chorale melody in the continuo.
In a trio, which is seldom found in Bach's cantatas, that we of the text Oh, we confess our guilt is illustrated. It is only accompanied by the continuo. The following recitative is a prayer for eternal peace, accompanied by strings and ending in an arioso .
The final chorale is composed of four parts.
Recordings
LP / CD
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 5 - Sundays after Trinity II. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Edith Mathis , Trudeliese Schmidt , Peter Schreier , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Archive production, 1978.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 58. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Lutz-Michael Harder , Philippe Huttenlocher . Hänssler, 1980.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 6. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , Boy Soprano, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Philippe Huttenlocher . Teldec, 1981.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12. Sound Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Sibylla Rubens , Annette Markert, Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2000.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 9. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Katharine Fuge, Nathalie Stutzmann , Christoph Genz , Gotthold Schwarz . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 28. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita, Robin Blaze , Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooij . UP, 2004.
DVD
- Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ. Cantata BWV 116. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Miriam Feuersinger (soprano), Elvira Bill (alto), Julius Pfeiffer (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Heidi Tagliavini . Gallus Media, 2016.
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 u. a., Leipzig a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ( Edition Bach Archive Leipzig ).
- Christoph Wolff (Ed.): The world of Bach cantatas. With a foreword by Ton Koopman . Special edition. JB Metzler u. a., Stuttgart a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-476-02127-0 .
Web links
- Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 116 Du Friedefürst, Lord Jesus Christ at Bach Cantatas (English)
- Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 116 on the Bach website
- Performance of cantatas , introductory workshop and reflection on the JS Bach Foundation's YouTube channel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Du Friedefürst, Lord Jesus Christ at Bach Cantatas (English)
- ↑ Du Friedefürst bei Bach Cantatas (English)
- ↑ Product information on the JS Bach Foundation website; accessed on November 10, 2018.
