It will come to a terrible end
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| It will come to a terrible end | |
| BWV: | 90 |
| Occasion: | 25th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1723 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Tr 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| unknown, Martin Moller | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
It will come to a terrible end ( BWV 90) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the 25th Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on November 14, 1723.
Story and words
In his first year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the 25th Sunday after Trinity .
The prescribed readings were 1 Thess 4,13-18 LUT and Mt 24,25-28 LUT , the "great tribulation". An unknown lyricist wrote a series of arias and recitatives . The final chorale is the seventh stanza of Martin Moller's hymn “Take from us, Lord, you faithful God” (1584), which is sung to the melody of Martin Luther's “Our Father in the Kingdom of Heaven”.
Bach first performed the cantata on November 14, 1723.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is set for three vocal soloists ( alto , tenor and bass ), four-part choir, trumpet , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Aria (tenor): It will come to a terrible end
- Recitativo (old): The highest goodness becomes new from day to day
- Aria (bass): So the avenging judge extinguishes in zeal
- Recitativo (tenor): But God's eye looks at us as chosen ones
- Chorale: Guide us with your right hand
music
The two arias in the cantata “paint a gloomy picture”, as Klaus Hofmann notes. The first aria for tenor and virtuoso violin is "of emphatic vehemence of expression", whereby the word "tears" is underlined by furious violin runs. John Eliot Gardiner compares the arias with the arias of revenge in baroque Italian operas. The following recitative points out, in great contrast, that God's goodness is new every day, but then goes into the despair in the face of human failure. The second aria is sung by the bass, underlined by the trumpet. The instrument calls to the Last Judgment mentioned at the end of the epistle. The last recitative turns to the idea that God is looking at his elect. The final chorale is a simple four-part movement.
Recordings
LP / CD
- Les Grandes Cantates de JS Bach, Vol. 15. Fritz Werner , Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim , Claudia Hellmann, Helmut Krebs , Erich Wenk. Erato , 1963.
- JS Bach: Cantatas / Cantatas No. 89, No. 90, No. 161. Jaap Schröder, Monteverdi Choir , Concerto Amsterdam , Helen Watts , Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Telefunken , 1965.
- The Bach Cantata, Vol. 59. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Helen Watts , Adalbert Kraus , Siegmund Nimsgern . Hänssler, 1978.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work, Episode / Vol. 22 - BWV 84–90. Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt-Consort , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Telefunken, 1978.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas, Vol. 8. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz, Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1998.
- Bach Edition Vol. 8 - Cantatas Vol. 3. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Sytse Buwalda, Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar. Brilliant Classics, 1999.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 15 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1723 - BWV 40, 60, 70, 90. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooy , BIS 2000
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 10: Potsdam / Wittenberg / For the 19th Sunday after Trinity. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , William Towers, James Gilchrist , Peter Harvey . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
DVD
- JS Bach: Cantata BWV 90 “It'll come to a terrible end”. Rudolf Lutz , Schola Seconda Pratica , Leonie Gloor, Antonia Frey, Bernhard Berchthold, Klaus Häger. With an introduction to the work and reflection by Rainer Erlinger . Gallus Media, 2010.
literature
- Alfred Dürr: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- 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
- It will come to a terrible end, BWV 90 : Notes and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 90 "It will come to a terrible end" by Bach Cantatas (English)
- "It will come to a terrible end" on the Bach website
- BWV 90 It tears you a terrible end Text, structure and line-up on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ Take from us, Lord, you faithful God / Text and Translation of Chorale ( en ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Our Father in Heaven ( en ) bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
- ↑ a b Christoph Wolff : On the first cycle of Bach's cantatas for the Leipzig liturgy 1724-25 (III) (PDF; 10.7 MB) p. 16. 1998. Accessed on November 21, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Klaus Hofmann: A terrible end will come for you, BWV 90 (PDF; 3.6 MB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 15. 2000. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity / Erlöserkirche, Potsdam ( en , PDF; 76 kB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 3. 2005. Accessed November 21, 2012.
- ↑ a b Julian Mincham: Chapter 27 BWV 90 A terrible ending will tear you away / You will be swept away with a terrible ending. ( en ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
