I poor man, I servant of sin
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I poor man, I servant of sin | |
| BWV: | 55 |
| Occasion: | 22nd Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Solo cantata |
| Solo : | T |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Ft Oa 2Vn Va Bc |
| text | |
| Christoph Birkmann | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Poor Me, Me Sündenknecht ( BWV 55) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity, November 17th, 1726.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata, his only surviving solo cantata for tenor, in his fourth year in Leipzig for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on November 17, 1726.
The prescribed readings were Phil 1, 3–11 LUT and Mt 18, 23–35 LUT , the parable of the scoundrel . The lyricist Christoph Birkmann (1703–1771), based on the Gospel, emphasizes in the first aria the contrast “He is just, I am unjust”. Sentences 3 and 4 both begin with the words have mercy . The final chorale is the sixth stanza of Werde munter mein Gemüte by Johann Rist (1642). Bach used the verse again in his St. Matthew Passion after the aria Mercy , in which Peter regrets having denied Jesus.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is set for tenor soloists, four-part choir in the final chorale, transverse flute , oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Aria: I poor person, I servant of sin
- Recitativo: I acted against God
- Aria: Have mercy! Let the tears soften you
- Recitativo: Have mercy! However, now I comfort myself
- Chorale: I left you in a moment
music
A dense polyphonic movement of flute, oboe d'amore and two violins, without viola, accompanies the first aria. The motifs seem to illustrate (after John Eliot Gardiner ) the insecure steps and desperation of the servant who is quoted before his master. The second aria is just as expressive, accompanied by a virtuoso flute. The first recitative is secco, the second is enriched by sustained strings.
Bach also used the final chorale , text and melody in his St. Matthew Passion, there in a more complex four-part movement. In Bach's works, the text appears only in these two places, while the melody occurs more frequently, for example as the end of both parts of the cantata Herz und Mund and Tat und Leben .
Gardiner concludes from the autograph that at least the last three cantata movements were composed earlier, perhaps in Weimar as parts of a lost passion .
Recordings
LP / CD
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 5. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Ernst Haefliger . Archive production, 1959.
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 3 - Cantatas II , Erhard Mauersberger , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , Peter Schreier . Eterna, 1968.
- Bach: Solo Cantatas. Hans-Martin Linde , Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , Nicolai Gedda , EMI, 1971.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 3. Gustav Leonhardt , Boys Choir Hanover , Leonhardt Consort , Kurt Equiluz . Telefunken , 1975.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 57 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Adalbert Kraus . Hänssler, 1982.
- JS Bach: Solo cantatas and arias. Peter Schreier , RIAS Chamber Choir , Chamber Orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Peter Schreier. Philips , 1994.
- JS Bach: Cantata BWV 55 · Concerto in A minor. Matthias Eisenberg , Thomanerchor Leipzig , Leipzig Baroque Orchestra , Martin Petzold . RAM, 1998.
- Cantatas, Arias & Motet. Ludwig Güttler , Virtuosi Saxoniae , Christoph Genz . Dresden Classics, 1999.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 12. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , James Gilchrist . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 18. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Christoph Prégardien . Antoine Marchand, 2002.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol. 1. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Sophie Karthäuser , Petra Noskaiová, Christoph Genz , Dominik Wörner . Accent, 2004.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 38 (Solo Cantatas). Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Gerd Türk. UP , 2006.
DVD
- I poor man, I servant of sin . Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Bernhard Berchtold, Gallus Media, St. Gallen 2012
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of JS Bach's Cantatas , 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 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig)
- 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 55 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 55 "I poor person, I servant of sin" by Bach Cantatas (English)
- "I poor person, I servant of sins", BWV 55 on the Bach website
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity All Saints, Tooting ( en ) solideogloria.co.uk. 2000. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
- ↑ Christine Blanken: A Cantata-Text Cycle of 1728 from Nuremberg: A preliminary report on a discovery relating to JS Bach's so-called 'Third Annual Cycle' . (PDF) In: Understanding Bach 10, pp. 9–30
- ↑ Werde munter mein Gemüte Text and Translation of Chorale by Bach Cantatas (English)
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works Be lively, my mind at Bach Cantatas (English)
