Elevated flesh and blood
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Elevated flesh and blood | |
| BWV: | 173 |
| Occasion: | 2nd day of Pentecost |
| Year of origin: | 1724? |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Ft Vl Va BC |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Elevated Flesh and Blood ( BWV 173) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the second day of Pentecost and probably performed it for the first time on May 29, 1724. Her music is based entirely on the Köthener congratulatory cantata, Serene Leopold , BWV 173a.
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata probably in his first year in Leipzig for the second day of Pentecost and performed it for the first time on May 29, 1724. He designed it from six (of eight) movements of the congratulatory cantata, Serene Leopold , BWV 173a, which he had composed in Koethen . The music from the version from 1724 has not survived, but a version from 1727. It is possible that the version from 1724 was even more similar to its model than the later one. The unknown lyricist wrote parodies of the six movements, including two recitatives in movements 1 and 5. Bach did not use movements 6 and 7 of the model in this cantata, but set movement 7 a year later in He calls his sheep by name , BWV 175 , a.
The prescribed readings for the feast day were Acts 10.16-21 LUT and John 3.16-21 LUT , the meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus . A general praise for the goodness of God prevails in poetry. The first stanza of movement 4 is a paraphrase of the beginning of the gospel, “ So God loved the world ”, which Bach used a year later for the opening choir of his cantata on the same occasion, So God Loved the World, BWV 68 .
Occupation and structure
The cantata is set up with four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, two flauti traversi , two violins , viola and basso continuo , while the congratulatory cantata was only set for two soloists.
- Recitativo (tenor): Elevated flesh and blood
- Aria (tenor): A hallowed mind
- Aria (Alto): God willing, O you human beings
- Aria (soprano, bass): This is how God loved the world
- Recitativo (soprano, tenor): the most infinite one called father
- Coro: Stir our spirits, Most High
music
Bach assigned the first movement to the tenor instead of the soprano in the congratulatory cantata. He changed the singing voice considerably, but did not write a new voice, but instead entered the new version in the voice of the secular original. The second aria , movement 3, is sung by alto instead of bass. Movement 4 is a duet that deals with three stanzas in increasingly rich variations, the first stanza for bass and strings in G major, the second for soprano a fifth higher in D major with additional flutes, the last for both voices, again a fifth higher in A major and more lively movement. The structure of this duet is unique in Bach's cantatas; the increase on several levels expresses the increase of the ruler. In the baroque period it was possible to transfer the exaltation of the secular ruler to the exaltation of God without change.
In the last movement, Bach partially expanded a duet into a homophonic four-part voice.
Recordings
- Bach: 13 Sacred Cantatas & 13 Sinfonias. Helmut Winschermann , Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke , German Bach Soloists, Ileana Cotrubas , Julia Hamari , Kurt Equiluz , Hermann Prey . Philips 1971.
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 4 - Cantatas V. Hans-Joachim Rotzsch , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester , Regina Werner, Heidi Rieß, Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, Siegfried Lorenz . Eterna 1974.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Kurt Equiluz , Robert Holl , Teldec 1995
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Lisa Larsson , Elisabeth von Magnus , Gerd Türk, Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1997
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 26: Long Melford For Whit Sunday For Whit Monday. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Lisa Larsson , Nathalie Stutzmann , Christoph Genz , Panajotis Iconomou. Soli Deo Gloria 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 20 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1724. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita, Mutsumi Hatano, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij . UP TO 2001.
- Elevated flesh and blood. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Maria Cristina Kiehr , Markus Forster, Gerd Türk, Markus Volpert. Daniel Hell (reflection). DVD, Gallus Media, 2011.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of JSBachs Cantatas , 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
- Elevated Flesh and Blood, BWV 173 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 173 Elevated Flesh and Blood in Bach Cantatas (English)
- BWV 173 Elevated Flesh and Blood Text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- BWV 173 Elevated Flesh and Blood University of Vermont
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tatiana Shabalina: Recent Discoveries in St Petersburg and their Meaning for the Understanding of Bach's Cantatas ( English , PDF; 5.6 MB) bachnetwork.co.uk. 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 59 BWV 173 Elevated Flesh and Blood ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
- ↑ Most Serene Leopold . bach.de. 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
- ↑ Julius Mincham: Chapter 89 BWV 173a Serene Leopold ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
