I am happy in you
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I am happy in you | |
| BWV: | 133 |
| Occasion: | 3rd Christmas Day |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Cn 2Oa 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Caspar Ziegler , Anonymous | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
I am happy in you ( BWV 133) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the Christmas cantata 1724 in Leipzig for Christmas Day as a chorale cantata for Ich reue mich in dir (1697) by Caspar Ziegler .
Story and words
Bach composed the choral cantata in his second year in office in Leipzig for Christmas Day as part of his second cantata cycle. The prescribed readings for the feast day, which was also celebrated as the day of the Evangelist John, were Heb 1: 1–14 LUT , Christ is higher than the angels, and John 1 : 1–14 LUT , the prologue of the Gospel of John . The cantata is based on the chorale in four stanzas Ich happy in dir (1697) by Caspar Ziegler . It is one of the newest chorales among those on which Bach built his choral cantatas, while otherwise he preferred the recognized main songs, for example by Martin Luther and Paul Gerhardt . The unknown poet kept the two outer stanzas and rewrote the two middle stanzas to form a series of recitative and aria. The text does not refer to the readings or to the feast of the Evangelist. It expresses the personal joy of the believer who experiences the presence of God in the baby Jesus.
Bach first performed the cantata on December 27, 1724. His successor, Johann Friedrich Doles , performed it after his death.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, zinc to reinforce the chorale melody, two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: I am happy in you
- Aria (old): Confident! it holds a holy body
- Recitativo (tenor): An Adam may be frightened
- Aria (soprano): How lovely it sounds in the ears
- Recitativo (bass): Well then, the fear and pain of death
- Chorale: Well, that's how I want to be
music
The chant is sung to a variant of the melody by O God, you pious God . This melody was probably new to Bach, because he noted it in the score of the Sanctus , which he had also composed for Christmas 1724 and later incorporated into his B minor Mass . The cantus firmus in the soprano is supported by zinc, the oboes play the 2nd violins and violas, while the 1st violins shine. The lower voices are predominantly set homophonically , with the exception of the embellished phrase “the great Son of God”.
While Bach's Weimar Christmas cantata Christians, etches this day expressed a general joy in two choral movements and two duets, four movements for a single voice reflect the joy of the individual believer. The altarie is accompanied by the oboi d'amore, the soprano aria by the strings, with a noticeable change from straight time to a siciliano in the middle section. The tenor recitative is marked twice with adagio to emphasize "The most high God himself comes to us", finally to quote the chorale both in text and melody: "He will be a little child and is called my Infant Jesus". The cantata closes with a four-part movement.
Recordings
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 122 & BWV 133. Michael Gielen , Wiener Kammerchor , Vienna State Opera Orchestra , Margit Opawsky, Hilde Rössel-Majdan , Waldemar Kmentt , Harald Hermann. Vanguard Bach Guild 1952
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 64. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Doris Soffel , Aldo Baldin , Philippe Huttenlocher . Hänssler 1980
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 7. Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Knabenchor Hannover, René Jacobs , Marius van Altena, Max van Egmond . Teldec 1983
- Bach Edition Vol. 4 - Cantatas Vol. 1. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar. Brilliant Classics 1999
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 13. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Deborah York, Franziska Gottwald, Paul Agnew, Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand 2000
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 15: New York / For the 3rd Day of Christmas. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, James Gilchrist , Peter Harvey . Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- JS Bach: Leipzig Christmas Cantatas. Philippe Herreweghe , Collegium Vocale Gent , Carolyn Sampson , Ingeborg Danz , Mark Padmore, Sebastian Noack, Peter Kooij . Harmonia Mundi France 2003
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 31. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita, Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij, BIS 2004
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
- I am delighted in you, BWV 133 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 133 I am happy in you with Bach Cantatas (English)
- I am looking forward to you on the Bach.de website
- BWV 133 I am happy in you. Text, structure, cast, at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ I'm happy in you / Text and Translation at Bach Cantatas (English)
- ↑ a b c Christoph Wolff : Chorale Cantatas from the cycle of the Leipzig church cantatas, 1724-25 (III) ( English ) 2000. Accessed December 15, 2011.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / O Gott, du pious God in Bach Cantatas (English)
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Third Day of Christmas / St Bartholomew's, New York ( English , PDF; 73 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved December 15, 2011.
