It's all waiting for you
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| It's all waiting for you | |
| BWV: | 187 |
| Occasion: | 7th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | S, A, B |
| Choir: | S, A, T, B |
| Instruments : | Ob I / II; Str; BC |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Everything is waiting for you ( BWV 187) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1726 for the 7th Sunday after Trinity . He later used four of their movements for his Mass in G minor .
Origin and Words
Bach wrote the cantata in Leipzig in 1726 in his third cantata cycle for the 7th Sunday after Trinity. He performed them three times, first on August 4, 1726, a second time between 1735 and 1740, and finally on July 26, 1749. The prescribed readings are Rom 6,19-23 LUT and Mk 8,27-28 LUT , feeding the four thousand. The opening chorus on Ps 104 : 27-28 LUT is directly related to the Gospel. The second part begins with a bass aria on Mt 6.31–32 LUT from the Sermon on the Mount . The cantata ends with stanzas 4 and 6 of Hans Vogel's chorale We sing from the heart (1563). The author of the remaining movements is unknown, Walter Blankenburg suggested Christoph Helm . The poet paraphrases further psalm verses from Psalm 104 and in the third sentence Ps 65,12 LUT
Bach used the music of four movements, the opening chorus and three arias , for movements in the Gloria of his Mass in G minor .
Occupation and structure
The cantata is set for three vocal soloists, soprano , alto and bass , four-part choir, two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
part One
- Coro: It's all waiting for you
- Recitativo (bass): What holds creatures, the big round of the world
- Aria (alto, oboe, strings): You, sir, you crown the year alone
Part II
- Aria (bass, violins): You shouldn't worry about that
- Aria (soprano, oboe): God provides for all life
- Recitativo (soprano, strings): I'll just hold on to him
- Chorale: God has finished the earth
music
In the opening chorus Bach achieves a unity of form, but at the same time the different treatment of the four ideas of the psalm verses in motet form. The motifs of the instrumental sinfonia of 28 bars are present almost throughout the entire movement and create unity. The first half-verse Everything is waiting for you (a) is presented in free polyphony , which is embedded in the orchestral movement. It is repeated together with the continuation that you give them food (b) in free polyphony with canonical imitation on two themes, while the instruments mostly play colla parte . Then a and b are repeated, embedded in the sinfonia, which is continued instrumentally. In the second section below , When you give them ... (c) the subject of a fugue , When you open your hand ... (d) the counter- subject . The instruments initially play colla parte and then throw in motifs from the sinfonia. In the third section, the entire text is repeated, embedded in part of the sinfonia.
The first aria praises God as the sustainer of life, accompanied by the entire orchestra in a dancing rhythm with irregular grouping of the bars in the ritornelles .
In the fourth movement, the biblical words from the Sermon on the Mount are entrusted to the bass as the Vox Christi (voice of Christ), accompanied by the violins in unison and the continuo, which participates in the motif.
The soprano aria consists of two contrasting parts, the first is accompanied by solemn dotted rhythms and a wide-ranging melody of the oboe, the second, un poco allegro , is again dance-like. After that, only the instruments repeat the dotted rhythms of the beginning. The last words of the soloist in the recitative are accompanied by strings like the words of Jesus in the St. Matthew Passion .
The final chorale is four-part for choir and all instruments.
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 44. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Maria Friesenhausen, Hildegard Laurich, Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1971.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 4 - Sundays after Trinity I. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Edith Mathis , Julia Hamari , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Archive production, 1977.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 10. Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt-Consort , boy soprano of the Knabenchor Hannover, Paul Esswood , Max van Egmond . Teldec , 1989.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 4. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Katharine Fuge, Richard Wyn Roberts, Stephan Loges. Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 18. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Sandrine Piau , Bogna Bartosz, Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2002.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 and Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04431-4 .
- Werner Neumann : Manual of the cantatas by JS Bach , 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; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv 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's all waiting for you, BWV 187 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 187 Everything is waiting for you, BWV 187 at Bach Cantatas (English)
- It's all waiting for you, BWV 187 on the Bach website
- BWV 187 Everything is waiting for you Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Free scores of These wait all of you in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The melody goes back to the late medieval In natali Domini and is contained in the Evangelical Hymn book under No. 38 (“Wonderful Mercy Throne”).
