Lord God, we all praise you
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| Lord God, we all praise you | |
| BWV: | 130 |
| Occasion: | Michaelis |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Choral cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 3Tr Ti Ft 3Ob 2Vl Va Bc |
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Lord God, we all praise you ( BWV 130) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1724 for the Michaelmas Festival and performed it for the first time on September 29, 1724.
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata in his second year in office in Leipzig for the festival of the Archangel Michael and all angels on September 29th. A trade fair took place in Leipzig that day. This year Bach composed a cycle of choral cantatas that he had started on the 1st Sunday after Trinity . The prescribed readings for Sunday were Rev 12,7–12 LUT , Michael's fight with the dragon, and Mt 18,1–11 LUT , “The kingdom of heaven belongs to the children, their angels see the face of God”.
The cantata is based on the song in twelve stanzas by Paul Eber (1554), a repositioning of Philipp Melanchthon's Latin “Dicimus grates tibi”. Each stanza has four lines. The melody was first printed in the Geneva Psalter in 1551. It is attributed to Loys Bourgeois and is very well known in the English-speaking world as the melody of the little doxology "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow".
Occupation and structure
The cantata is festively occupied with four soloists ( soprano , alto , tenor and bass ), four-part choir, three trumpets , timpani , flauto traverso , three oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Chorale: Lord God, we all praise you
- Recitativo (Alto): Your bright luster and high wisdom shows
- Aria (bass): The old dragon burns with envy
- Recitativo (soprano, tenor): Well, that day and night
- Aria (tenor): Leave it, O Prince of the Cherubines
- Chorale: That's why we praise you cheaply
music
In the opening choir, Bach lets each other sing in choirs by assigning different themes to different instrument groups , the strings, the oboes and the trumpets, in the festive line-up that was customary in Leipzig on major public holidays such as Christmas. In comparison to the 15 opening choirs of the previous cantatas in the cycle, Mincham states that this is the most lavishly orchestrated and of a highly extroverted festive character ("... the most lavishly scored chorus so far and certainly the most extrovertly festive in character") .
In movement 3 trumpets and kettledrums accompany the bass in a picture of the fight against the "old dragon". A gentle duet by soprano and tenor recalls the guardian angels who saved Daniel in the lions' den and the three men in the fiery furnace. John Eliot Gardiner associates the flute part in a gavotte for tenor with the scene in which Elias drives through angels to heaven. The final chorale is again dominated by the trumpets.
Recordings
- Les Grandes Cantates de JS Bach Vol. 17. Fritz Werner , Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra , Friederike Sailer , Claudia Hellmann , Helmut Krebs , Jakob Stämpfli . Erato, 1961.
- Ansermet conducts Bach, Cantatas No. 130, No. 67, excerpts from No. 101. Ernest Ansermet , Chœur Pro Arte de Lausanne , L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande , Elly Ameling , Helen Watts , Werner Krenn , Tom Krause . Decca, 1968.
- The Bach Cantata, Vol. 17. Helmuth Rilling , Figural Choir of the Stuttgart Memorial Church, Bach Collegium Stuttgart , Kathrin Graf , Gabriele Schnaut , Adalbert Kraus , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1974.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 5. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Edith Mathis , Trudeliese Schmidt , Ernst Haefliger , Peter Schreier . Archive production , 1978.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work, Volume 32 - BWV 128-131. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Kurt Equiluz , Walter Heldwein . Teldec , 1981.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas, Vol. 10. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Caroline Stam , Michael Chance , Paul Agnew , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1998.
- Bach Edition Vol. 9 - Cantatas Vol. 4. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton , Sytse Buwalda , Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar . Brilliant Classics, 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 , Richard Wyn Roberts , James Gilchrist , Peter Harvey . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 33 - BWV 41, 92, 130. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , Jan Kobow , Peter Kooij . UP, 2005.
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 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- Publishing company).
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Cantata BWV 130 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 130 "Lord God, we all praise you" on Bach Cantatas website
- BWV 130 Lord God, we all praise you on the Bach website
- BWV 130 “Lord God, we all praise you” Text, structure, cast at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaus Hofmann: Lord God, we all praise you, BWV 130 / Lord God, we all praise You (PDF; 523 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Julian Mincham: Chapter 17 BWV 130 Lord God, we all praise you / Lord God, we all praise you . jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ↑ Christoph Wolff : Chorale Cantatas from the cycle of the Leipzig / church cantatas, 1724-25 (III) (PDF), bach-cantatas.com, 2000, p. 9 (accessed on August 28, 2012).
- ↑ Lord God, we all praise you / Text and Translation of Chorale . bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Feast of St Michael and All Angels / Unser liebe Frauen, Bremen (PDF; 84 kB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 6-8. 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Lord God, we all praise you . bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
- ↑ The melody was used for the 100th Psalm and is therefore called Old 100th (cf. Old 100th ).
