You who call yourselves of Christ
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| You who call yourselves of Christ | |
| BWV: | 164 |
| Occasion: | 13th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | S, A, T, B |
| Choir: | (S, A, T, B) |
| Instruments : | Fl; If; Str; BC |
| text | |
| Salomon Franck | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
You, who call yourselves from Christ , BWV 164, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , written in Leipzig in 1725 for the 13th Sunday after Trinity , August 26th, 1725.
Story and text
In his third year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the 13th Sunday after Trinity, August 26, 1725. He set a cantata text that Salomon Franck had published in Weimar in 1715 in Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer . He was similar before in Do account! Donnerwort , BWV 168, proceed.
The prescribed readings are Gal 3 : 15–22 LUT and Lk 10,23–37 LUT , the parable of the good Samaritan . Charity is the predominant theme in this cantata, while in the texts of the two previous years, You should love God your Lord and alone to yourself, Lord Jesus Christ , the equality of love for God and love for neighbor was emphasized. The final chorale is the fifth and last stanza by Herr Christ, the unified God son of Elisabeth Creutziger (1524).
Cast and structure
As in some other cantatas based on texts by Franck, the cantata has chamber music, only the final chorale is four-part. With four vocal soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , two flutes , two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo make music .
- Aria (tenor, strings): You who call yourselves from Christ
- Recitativo (bass): We hear what love speaks itself
- Aria (alto, flutes): Only through love and mercy
- Recitativo (tenor, strings): Oh, melt through your love ray
- Aria (soprano, bass, flutes, oboes, strings): hands that don't close
- Chorale: kill us through your goodness
music
The music for the four vocal soloists is essentially chamber music. The form of the three arias differs from the usual da capo aria . In the tenor aria, the voice and strings develop the same thematic material in the form A – B - A '- B'. In the alto aria, accompanied by motifs of sighs on the flutes, the first part is not repeated, but rather the second part, A - B - B '. In the duet, Bach forms a quartet of singing voices, high instruments playing in unison and continuo. The text is presented in three sections and summarized in a fourth, which takes up the first again. The final chorale is a simple four-part movement.
Recordings
- LP / CD
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 49. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Edith Wiens , Julia Hamari , Lutz-Michael Harder , Walter Heldwein . Hänssler, 1982.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9. Gustav Leonhardt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt-Consort , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Edith Wiens , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Teldec , 1987.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 6. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Gillian Keith , Nathalie Stutzmann , Christoph Genz , Jonathan Brown . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 18. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Johannette Zomer , Bogna Bartosz , Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2002.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year, Vol. 5. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Gerlinde Sämann , Petra Noskaiová , Jan Kobow , Dominik Wörner . Accent, 2006.
- JS Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 40. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , Makoto Sakurada , Peter Kooij . UP , 2007.
- DVD
- Johann Sebastian Bach: You who call yourselves from Christ. Cantata BWV 164. Rudolf Lutz , Orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Monika Mauch (soprano), Jan Börner (alto), Jakob Pilgram (tenor), Markus Volpert (bass). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Karen Horn . Gallus Media, 2017.
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; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig ) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verl.).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Leonard: Cantata No. 164, you who call yourselves from Christo, BWV 164 ( English ) allmusic.com. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
- ^ A b c Alfred Dürr: The cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1971.
- ↑ Booklet ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on May 17, 2017.
Web links
- You, who call yourselves from Christo, BWV 164 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 164 You, who call yourselves from Christ on the bach-cantatas website
- You, who call yourselves from Christo on the Bach website
