There is nothing healthy about my body
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| There is nothing healthy about my body | |
| BWV: | 25th |
| Occasion: | 14th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1723 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | STB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Cn 3Tb 3Fl 2Ob 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
There is nothing healthy about my body ( BWV 25) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1723 for the 14th Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on August 29, 1723.
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata in his first year in office in Leipzig in 1723 for the 14th Sunday after Trinity.
The prescribed readings for Sunday were Gal 5 : 16–24 LUT , Paul on “the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit”, and Lk 17 : 11–19 LUT , the healing of ten lepers . According to Christoph Wolff , the cantata text was written by Johann Jakob Rambach and was published in Halle in 1720 in “Geistliche Poesien”. The poet refers to the gospel and compares the situation of man with that of the leper. The disease first appears in words from Psalm 38, Ps 38,4 LUT . As Julian Mincham observes, sin, decay, God's wrath, and the decomposition of bones dominate Lutheran theology in general and the opening choir in particular. At the end of sentence 3 Jesus is called with a request for healing. The last aria expresses the hope to sing thanks for it in the choir of angels. The cantata ends with the twelfth stanza from Johann Heermann's chorale Treuer Gott, I must complain to you (1630).
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of three soloists, soprano , tenor and bass , a four-part choir, and a colorful orchestra: zinc , three trombones , three recorders , two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: There is nothing healthy about my body
- Recitativo (tenor): The whole world is just one hospital
- Aria (bass): Oh, where do I get poor advice?
- Recitativo (soprano): O Jesus, dear master .
- Aria (soprano): Open up my bad songs
- Chorale: I want all of my days
music
Similar to the cantata You should love God, your Lord, composed a week earlier , Bach uses the instrumental quotation of a full chorale in the opening choir in this cantata. The melody is known for the words Herzlich makes me long for my blissful end . But Bach probably thought of the text Oh Lord, me poor sinner , which he later used in his chorale cantata Oh Lord, me poor sinner, BWV 135 , a repositioning of Psalm 6 . The second stanza begins: "You heal me, dear gentleman, because I am sick and weak". In a complex structure, Bach combines an instrumental introduction in which the chorale melody lies in long notes in continuo and is superimposed by figuration of the strings and oboes, a vocal double fugue, and finally the chorale, played by a trombone choir with zinc as the soprano instrument , which is amplified an octave higher by three recorders. John Eliot Gardiner sees the unusual, independent trumpet setting as an anticipation of the finale of Beethoven's 5th Symphony .
The following three movements are only accompanied by the continuo. Movement 5 opens up a new perspective in dance music as a concerto of strings and oboes, answered by the flutes as an echo. The music refers to the words “in the higher choir I will sing with the angels”. The final chorale is a simple four-part movement.
Recordings
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 2 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Wiener Sängerknaben , Chorus Viennensis , Concentus Musicus Wien , Soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben, Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond , Teldec 1972
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 48 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Adalbert Kraus , Philippe Huttenlocher , Hänssler 1978
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Lisa Larsson , Gerd Türk, Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1997
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 13 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1723 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij , BIS 1999
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 7: Ambronay / Bremen / For the 14th Sunday after Trinity / For the Feast of St Michael and All Angels , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Malin Hartelius , James Gilchrist , Peter Harvey , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Arend Hoyer: What makes music reverent. Three Leipzig church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, examined from a liturgical point of view. Theological Publishing House Zurich: Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-290-18139-0 [BWV 17, 25, 78].
- 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 .
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- There is nothing healthy about my body, BWV 25 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 25 There is nothing healthy about my body.htm There is nothing healthy about my body at Bach Cantatas (English)
- There is nothing healthy about my body on the Bach website
- BWV 25 There is nothing healthy about my body Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Wolff: On the first annual cycle of Boch's cantatas for the Leipzig liturgy (1723–24) ( en , PDF; 11.2 MB) bach-cantatas.com. 1998. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Julian Mincham: Chapter 17 BWV 25 There is nothing healthy about my body ( s ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ↑ Faithful God, I must complain to you / Text and Translation of Chorale ( en ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity / Abbaye d'Ambronay ( en , PDF; 82 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2008. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
