I live, my heart, to your delight
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I live, my heart, to your delight | |
| BWV: | 145 |
| Occasion: | 3rd Easter day |
| Year of origin: | 1729? |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | STB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Tr Ft 2Oa 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Picander | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
I live, my heart, to your delight ( BWV 145) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for the 3rd Easter day and probably performed it for the first time on April 19, 1729.
Story and words
The prescribed readings for the feast day were Acts 13,26–33 LUT , Paul's sermon in Antioch, and Lk 24,36–49 LUT , the appearance of Jesus to the disciples in Jerusalem after his resurrection . The cantata has only survived in a later copy. Five of the seven movements are based on a text that Picander published in his cantatas of 1728, so a first performance on April 19, 1729 appears likely. Picander did not elaborate on the readings in his text. The copy also contains a chorale verse at the beginning, Caspar Neumann's chorale "Auf, mein Herz, des Herren Tag" (approx. 1700), as well as the first movement of a cantata by Georg Philipp Telemann , "So you mit dem Munde confess Jesum" Re-sealing of Rom 10.9 LUT . The beginning of the Telemann sentence is the title of the copy. The two movements were added after Bach's death and make the cantata also suitable for Easter Sunday. After Klaus Hofmann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach expanded the cantata during his time in Hamburg (after 1768) and set the opening chorale himself. According to Christoph Wolff , the cantata was possibly composed by Carl Friedrich Zelter for the Berlin Singakademie . The final chorale is the 14th and last stanza of Nikolaus Herman's Easter song “The glorious day appeared”.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by three soloists, soprano , tenor and bass , four-part choir, trumpet , flauto traverso , two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Chorale: Up, my heart, the Lord's day
- Coro: If you confess Jesus with your mouth
- Aria (tenor, soprano): I live, my heart, to your delight
- Recitativo (tenor): Now ask, Moses, as you will,
- Aria (bass): Notice my heart, consistently only this
- Recitativo (soprano): My Jesus lives
- Choral: So let's be cheap too
music
The first movement added is a four-part choral stanza. Telemann's movement is in two parts , a duet and a chorus fugue , in which the strings and woodwinds play colla parte with the voices , while the trumpet is partly independently performed. Telemann's work was preceded by an instrumental introduction to the subject.
The music on Picander's text begins in movement 3 in a duet with an obbligato violin. The tenor conveys the position of Jesus: “I live, my heart, to your delight”, while the soprano as a believer replies: “You live, my Jesus, to my delight”. The movement resembles duets from Bach's secular cantatas and is perhaps a parody of an unknown work. It is unusual for Bach to have the tenor sing the Jesus words. The following secco recitative ends as arioso to emphasize: "My heart, remember that!", A thought that the following bass aria takes up. All instruments except the viola accompany this aria, it has a dance-like character with regular periods and is perhaps also the parody of a secular work. The cantata ends with a four-part sentence from the Easter song "The glorious day has appeared".
Recordings
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 6 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Kurt Equiluz , Thomas Hampson , Teldec 1983
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 23 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Costanza Cuccaro, Adalbert Kraus , Andreas Schmidt , Hänssler 1984
- Bach Edition Vol. 12 - Cantatas Vol. 6 , Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton, Nico van der Meel, Bas Ramselaar, Brilliant Classics 1999
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the 3rd Sunday of Epiphany , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Angharad Gruffydd Jones, James Gilchrist , Stephen Varcoe , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Johannette Zomer, Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 2000
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 32 - BWV 111, 123, 124, 125 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Hana Blažíková , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij , BIS 2011
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
- I live, my heart, to your delight, BWV 145 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 145 I live, my heart, to your delight at Bach Cantatas (English)
- I live, my dear, to your delight on the Bach.de website
- BWV 145 I live, my dear, to your delight Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Klaus Hofmann: I live, my heart, for your delight / (I live, my heart, for your delight), BWV 145 ( English , PDF; 2.0 MB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 7. 2011. Accessed April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Christoph Wolff: The cantatas of the period 1726-1731 and of the Picander cycle (1728-29) ( English , PDF; 62 kB) bach-cantatas.com. P. 12. Accessed April 2, 2012.
- ↑ The glorious Tag / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com was published. 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
- ↑ a b Julian Mincham: Chapter 42 BWV 145 I live, my heart ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Published the glorious day ( English bach-cantatas.com). 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
