Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God | |
| BWV: | 127 |
| Occasion: | Estomihi |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | STB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Tr 2Fl 2Ob 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
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| List of Bach cantatas | |
Lord Jesus Christ, true 'Mensch und Gott ( BWV 127) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for Estomihi Sunday and performed it for the first time on February 11, 1725.
Story and words
In his second year in office in Leipzig, Bach wrote the chorale cantata for the Sunday Estomihi, the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. After this Sunday, the tempus clausum was observed in Leipzig during the Passion time , that is, no cantatas were played except on the feast of the Annunciation . In 1723 Bach had probably performed two cantatas on Estomihi in Leipzig, You true God and David's son , already composed in Koethen , and Jesus took the twelve with him , both as test pieces for the office of Thomaskantor .
The prescribed readings for Sunday were 1 Cor 13 : 1–13 LUT and Lk 18 : 31–43 LUT , the healing of a blind man and the associated announcement of suffering in Jerusalem. The cantata text is based on the death song in eight stanzas by Paul Eber (1562). The song fits the Gospel because it emphasizes the Passion and the call at the end of the first stanza “You want to be gracious to me sinner” is similar to the call of the blind man. The song regards Jesus' path to Jerusalem as a model for the believer's path to his own redeemed end. An unknown poet retained the wording of the first and last stanzas of the song and composed the internal stanzas into a series of recitatives and arias , meaningfully including a few lines literally. Stanzas 2 and 3 became a recitative, stanza 4 became an aria, stanza 5 became a recitative, stanzas 6 and 7 became another aria.
Bach first performed the cantata on February 11, 1725. It is the penultimate chorale cantata of his 2nd cantata cycle, before How beautifully the morning star shines, BWV 1 , for the Annunciation.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of three soloists, soprano , tenor , bass , four-part choir, trumpet , two recorders , two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Chorale: Lord Jesus Christ, true 'man and God
- Recitativo (tenor): When everything is horrified at the last time
- Aria (soprano): The soul rests in Jesus' hands
- Recitativo e aria (bass): When one day the trumpets sound - Truly, truly, I tell you
- Chorale: Oh Lord, forgive all our guilt
music
The opening chorale is structured by an extended prelude and interludes. They are based on a motif derived from the first line of the chorale. They also contain the cantus firmus of another chant, the Lutheran Agnus Dei "Christe, du Lamm Gottes", which appears first in the strings, then in the oboes and recorders. This chorale is used in a similar way to the opening chorus of Bach's St. Matthew Passion “ O Lamb of God, innocent ”. His request “have mercy on us” corresponds to that of the blind man in the Gospel. As a third chorale, the beginning of the passion song "O head full of blood and wounds" appears several times in the continuo. Christoph Wolff notes that a little later on Good Friday in 1725, Bach performed the second version of his St. John Passion , in which he replaced the opening and closing choruses with chorals, "O man, weep your sin great", which he later completed at the end of the first Part of his St. Matthew Passion reshaped, and again “Christ, you Lamb of God”.
For the first aria, Bach chose an unusual instrumentation. The oboe plays the melody, supported by short chords in the recorders. In the middle section, the “death bells” are represented by pizzicato of the strings. Sentence 4 illustrates the Last Judgment . The trumpet appears for the first time to the text “When the trumpets sound one day”. The unusual movement combines an accompagnato recitative with an aria. He contrasts the end of the world with the security of believers, which is expressed in the words and music of the chant. John Eliot Gardiner compares the sentence with the double choir from the St. Matthew Passion "If lightning is lightning, thunder is gone in clouds". The final chorale is a four-part sentence that goes into the text subtly, for example, “our faith is always brave” is made clear by movement in the lower voices and artfully harmonized “until we fall asleep”.
Recordings
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 67, 108 & 127 , Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Bavarian State Orchestra , Antonia Fahberg , Peter Pears , Kieth Engen , Teldec 1958
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 127 & BWV 171 , Wolfgang Gönnenwein , South German Madrigal Choir , South West German Chamber Orchestra , Herrad Wehrung , Georg Jelden, Jakob Stämpfli , Cantate 1961
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 40 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Lutz-Michael Harder , Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1980
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk Complete Cantatas Les Cantates, Episode / Vol. 31 , Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt-Consort , Soloist of the Knabenchor Hannover, Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond , Teldec 1982
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Sibylla Rubens , Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1999
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 21: Cambridge / Walpole St Peter / For Quinquagesima Sunday (Estomihi) / For Annunciation / Palm Sunday / Oculi , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge , English Baroque Soloists , Ruth Holton, James Oxley, Stephan Loges, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- Bach Edition Vol. 20 - Cantatas Vol. 11 , Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton, Nico van der Meel, Bas Ramselaar, Brilliant Classics 2000
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 34 - (Cantatas from Leipzig 1725) , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Carolyn Sampson , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij , BIS 2005
- JS Bach: Jesus, your Passion - Cantates BWV 22, 23, 127 & 159 , Philippe Herreweghe , Collegium Vocale Gent , Dorothee Mields , Jan Kobow , Peter Kooij , Harmonia Mundi France 2007
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 : 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
- Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God, BWV 127 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 127 Lord Jesus Christ, true 'man and God at Bach Cantatas (English)
- Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God on the Bach.de website
- BWV 127 Lord Jesus Christ, true 'man and God' Text, structure, occupation, at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Christoph Wolff: The Leipzig church cantatas: the chorale cantata cycle (II: 1724–1725) ( en , PDF; 62 kB) bach-cantatas.com. P. 4. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
- ↑ David Vernier: Jesu, Your Passion - Bach: Cantatas Bwv 22, 23, 127 & 159 / Herreweghe, Mields, White, et al . arkivmusic.com. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
- ↑ Christ, true man and God / Text and Translation of Chorale ( en ) bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
- ↑ a b Julian Mincham: Chapter 40 BWV 127 Lord Jesus Christ, true 'man and God ( s ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ↑ Lord Jesus Christ, true 'Mensch und Gott / Examples from the Score / Mvt. 1 - The Chorale Melody and Text ( en ) bach-cantatas.com. 2004. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ↑ a b John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for Quinquagesima / King's College Chapel, Cambridge ( en , PDF; 90 kB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 4. 2006. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
