It is salvation and we come here, BWV 9
Bach cantata | |
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It is salvation that we come here | |
BWV: | 9 |
Occasion: | 6th Sunday after Trinity |
Year of origin: | 1732? |
Place of origin: | Leipzig |
Genus: | cantata |
Solo : | SATB |
Choir: | SATB |
Instruments : | Ft Oa 2Vl Va Bc |
text | |
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List of Bach cantatas |
It is salvation and we come here ( BWV 9) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the choral cantata between 1732 and 1735 in Leipzig for the 6th Sunday after Trinity as a supplement to his second cantata cycle.
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig between 1732 and 1735 for the 6th Sunday after Trinity. When he formed his second cantata cycle from chorale cantatas in 1724, he was not in Leipzig that Sunday, but in Köthen , so he added this late cantata to the cycle. It is based on the Lutheran chorale Es ist das Heil unskommen by Paul Speratus , who appeared in 1524 in the Eight-Song Book , the first Lutheran hymnbook. The theme of the chant is a summary of the Lutheran teaching, as the first stanza already shows: "It is salvation and we come from grace and pure goodness. The works that never help ... faith looks at Jesus Christ,. .. he has become the mediator. "
The prescribed readings for Sunday were Rom 6 : 3-11 LUT , "Through Christ's death we died of sin", and Mt 5: 20-26 LUT , a section from the Sermon on the Mount about better righteousness compared to fulfilling the law. An unknown lyricist translated 12 of the 14 stanzas into seven cantata movements, retaining the wording of the first and last stanzas, forming a recitative (2) out of stanzas 2-4 , a second (4) from stanzas 5-7 and the Verses 9-11 a third (6). Ideas from verse 8 became an aria (5), movement 3 is not derived directly from the chorale, but an intensification of the closing lines of movement 2. The three recitatives can be viewed as a sermon that is deepened by the inserted arias.
As early as 1716, Bach had verse 12 of the chorale for the conclusion of Mein Gott, wie lang, oh long? used, in 1723, the stanzas 12 and 11 for the conclusion of the two parts of anger you, oh soul, do not , and in 1724 stanza 11 for verily, verily, I say to you .
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of chamber music with four vocal soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, flauto traverso , oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: It is salvation and we come here
- Recitativo (bass): God gave us a law
- Aria (tenor): We were already too low
- Recitativo (bass): But the law had to be fulfilled
- Aria (soprano, alto): Lord, you see instead of good works
- Recitativo (bass): When we recognize the sin from the law
- Choral: Whether it worked, as if he didn't want to
music
The opening choir is a choral fantasy, the voices are embedded line by line in an independent concerto of instruments. The cantus firmus of the chorale melody is long notes in the soprano, while the lower voices are imitated. The instrumentation with transverse flute and oboe d'amore is unusual, sometimes the first violin comes off the string tutti and takes part in the concerto.
All three recitatives are entrusted to the bass as the Vox Christi (voice of Christ) and are designed like a continuing sermon. The recitatives are secco , with the exception of the last line of sentence 4 "... and wraps tightly around Jesus' arms", which is intensified into an intimate arioso . The tenor aria depicts: "We were already too low". Alfred Dürr describes: "Down aspirant treble figures and syncopated rhythms paint the tumbling sinking into the abyss of sin." The duet "Lord, do you see instead of good works" for soprano and alto is flute, oboe d'amore and continuo quintet. It is set in artistic canonical imitation, but its melody makes it playful and relaxed.
The final chorale has four voices, but the lower parts are polyphonic.
Recordings
- LP, CD
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas, Vol. 1. Gustav Leonhardt , King's College Choir , Leonhardt-Consort , soloist of the Regensburger Domspatzen , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Teldec , 1972.
- Bach Cantatas, Vol. 4 - Sundays after Trinity I. conductor Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Edith Mathis , Julia Hamari , Peter Schreier , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Archive production , 1977.
- The Bach Cantata, Vol. 8. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn , Ulrike Sonntag , Gabriele Schreckenbach , Adalbert Kraus , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1984.
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 9, 94 & 187. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Midori Suzuki , Magdalena Kožená , Knut Schoch , Jan van der Crabben . German Harmonia Mundi, 1999.
- Bach Edition Vol. 14 - Cantatas Vol. 7. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Marjon Strijk , Sytse Buwalda , Nico van der Meel , Bas Ramselaar . Brilliant Classics, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas - Trinity Cantatas 4 - Ansbach / Haddinton, For the 6th Sunday after Trinity - For the 7th Sunday after Trinity. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Joanne Lunn , Michael Chance , James Gilchrist , Stephen Varcoe . Archive production , 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 20. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Sandrine Piau , Bogna Bartosz , James Gilchrist , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2002.
- DVD
- It is salvation that we come here. Cantata BWV 9. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Julia Doyle , Alex Potter , Charles Daniels , Peter Harvey . Including an introductory workshop and musical reflection by Amandine Beyer . Gallus Media, 2015.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach. 1947, 5th ed. 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; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2006; (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verlag).
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006 ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- It is salvation and we come here, BWV 9 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 9 “It is salvation and we come here” on bach cantatas website
- It is salvation and we come here on the Bach website
- BWV 9 It is salvation and we come here Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ It is salvation and we come here / Text and Translation of Chorale . bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ James Leonard: Cantata No. 9, "It is salvation we come here," BWV 9 . Allmusic . 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / It is salvation and we come here . bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ Product information ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on April 30, 2015.