Lord God, we praise you, BWV 16
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| God, we praise you | |
| BWV: | 16 |
| Occasion: | New Year |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Cc 2Ob Oc 2Vl Va (Vt) Bc |
| text | |
| Georg Christian Lehms , Martin Luther , Paul Eber | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Lord God, we praise you ( BWV 16) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the cantata in Leipzig for New Year's Day and performed it for the first time on January 1, 1726.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata in his third year in Leipzig for New Year 1726. The day was celebrated as the feast of the circumcision of the Lord . The prescribed readings for the feast day were Gal 3 : 23–29 LUT (“We are heirs through faith”) and Lk 2,21 LUT (“The prescribed circumcision and naming of Jesus after eight days”). The cantata text comes from a publication by Georg Christian Lehms from 1711 , which, without reference to the readings, emphasizes praise and thanks for the gifts of the past and the request for further blessings. The poet began the opening chorus with the first four lines of Martin Luther's German Te Deum, Herr Gott, we praise you . The following pair of recitative and aria looks at the past, another looks into the future. The poet had not planned a final chorale, but Bach chose the last stanza by Paul Ebers Help me praise God's goodness (c.1580).
Bach first performed the cantata on January 1, 1726.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of three soloists ( alto , tenor and bass ), four-part choir, corno da caccia to reinforce the chorale melody, two oboes , oboe da caccia , two violins , viola , violetta (alternative) and basso continuo .
- Coro: Lord God, we praise you .
- Recitativo (bass): This is how we tune at this happy time .
- Aria (bass, tutti): Let's cheer, let's be happy .
- Recitativo (alto): Oh, loyal hoard .
- Aria (tenor): Beloved Jesus, you alone .
- Chorale: All such your goodness we praise .
music
In the opening choir, the soprano and horn take over the liturgical melody of the Te Deum, while the lower voices are performed in agitated counterpoint, whereby they are also reinforced by instruments, while oboe I and violin I form a fourth counterpoint part. The following secco recitative ends with the words: "Oh, shouldn't a new song be heard and we sing in ardent love?" Consistently the following sentence begins attacca with the voices: "Let us shout, let us rejoice". This unusual movement combines elements of aria and chorus in a free da capo form. In the first part the choir dominates, in the middle part the bass solo. A second secco recitative leads to an intimate aria, which in 1726 was accompanied by an oboe da caccia obbligato . In a later performance, perhaps in 1734, it was replaced by a violetta, which, according to Johann Gottfried Walther, can mean a viola or an alto viol . The cantata closes with a four-part chorale.
Recordings
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 1. Gustav Leonhardt , Tölzer Knabenchor , King's College Choir , Leonhardt-Consort , Paul Esswood , Marius van Altena , Max van Egmond . Teldec 1972.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 20. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Gabriele Schreckenbach , Peter Schreier , Philippe Huttenlocher . Hänssler 1981
- Bach Edition Vol. 4 - Cantatas Vol. 1. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Sytse Buwalda , Nico van der Meel , Bas Ramselaar . Brilliant Classics 1999
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 17: Berlin / For for New Year's Day / For the Sunday after New Year. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Charles Humphries , James Gilchrist , Peter Harvey . Soli Deo Gloria 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 16 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz , Paul Agnew , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand 2001.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol. 4: "They will all come from Saba" - Cantatas BWV 16 · 65 · 153 · 154 , Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Elisabeth Hermans , Petra Noskaiová , Jan Kobow , Jan van the crab . Accent 2006.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 42. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk , Peter Kooy . UNTIL 2008.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by Johann Sebastian 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 . Leipzig: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig), ISBN 3-89948-073-2
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- Lord God, we praise you, BWV 16 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Data, text and sources at Bach digital
- Cantata BWV 16 Lord God, we praise you on the bach-cantatas website
- Lord God, we praise you on the Bach.de website
- BWV 16 Lord God, we praise you Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ Help me praise God's goodness / Text and Translation of Chorale . bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
- ↑ Beginning of the Lutheran Te Deum in the Dresden hymn book 1656
- ↑ a b John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for New Year's Day / Gethsemanekirche, Berlin ( English , PDF; 112 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2011.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Help me praise God's goodness . bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved December 15, 2011.
