People, exalt God's love
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| People, exalt God's love | |
| BWV: | 167 |
| Occasion: | Johannis |
| Year of origin: | 1723 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Cl Ob Oc 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
You people, praise God's love ( BWV 167) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the feast of John the Baptist and performed it for the first time on June 24, 1723.
Story and words
In his first year in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for Johannis, the feast of John the Baptist on June 24, 1723, which fell in the week after the 4th Sunday after Trinity , shortly after he had taken up his duties as Thomaskantor . On the 1st Sunday after Trinity, Bach took up his post with a cantata in 14 movements, The poor should eat , and thus began his first cycle of cantatas. In comparison, the work for the Feast of the Holy in five movements is less demanding.
The prescribed readings for Sunday were Isa 40,1–5 LUT and Lk 1,57–80 LUT , the birth of the Baptist and the hymn of praise to Zacharias , his father. The unknown poet took some sentences almost verbatim from the Gospel, for example the beginning of the hymn of praise as "Blessed be the Lord God Israel". The poetry pursues the idea that Jesus, "the seed of woman", will blot out the sins illustrated by the image of the serpent. The last recitative asks everyone to sing praises like Zacharias. This happens in the final chorale, the fifth stanza of Johann Gramann's Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren (1549).
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of chamber music with four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir only in the chorale, clarino as reinforcement of the choral melody, oboe , oboe da caccia , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Aria (tenor): You people, glorify God's love
- Recitativo (old): Blessed be the Lord God Israel
- Aria (soprano, alto): God's word is not deceptive
- Recitativo (bass): The woman's seed came
- Chorale: Be praise and praise with honor
music
In contrast to the cantatas previously composed for Leipzig, Bach does not begin this cantata with an opening chorus, but with an aria . Possibly he was starting from the praise of the individual. The aria is only accompanied by strings, partly violin solo, partly in the dense movement of all strings. The following recitative, which refers to John and Jesus on the way to redemption, ends in an arioso at the end of the lines "to rejoice with grace and love and to guide them to the kingdom of heaven in true repentance". This arioso is carried by an ostinato movement in continuo that resembles Alberti basses .
The following duet , accompanied by an oboe da caccia obbligato , has a dense sound, as the instrument and voice appear in the same pitch, often homophonic . The middle section of the da capo structure is subdivided again, the first section leaves the 3/4 time of the opening section to 4/4 time. A canon of the two voices is accompanied by his head motif, played by both the oboe and the continuo. The second section returns to 3/4 time and expresses the joy of God's redeemed promise in endless jubilant runs in third and sixth parallels.
The last recitative also ends in an arioso when it comes to calling for praise. The bass sings the words “and praises him” to the melody of the following chorale . The final chorale, a general song of praise, is not a simple four-part movement, as is the rule in Bach's later church cantatas. Rather, Bach uses all instruments and all voices together for the first time, with the voices embedded in a concerto of the orchestra. The oboe reinforces the violin, the baroque trumpet only appears in this movement and reinforces the cantus firmus . In its appendix, the movement points ahead to the final movements in Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio .
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 41 , Helmuth Rilling , Figural Choir of the Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Kathrin Graf, Helrun Gardow, Adalbert Kraus , Niklaus Tüller, Hänssler 1974
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , Helmut Wittek and Panito Iconomou (soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor), Kurt Equiluz , Robert Holl , Teldec 1987
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 8 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Dorothea Röschmann , Bogna Bartosz, Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1998
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 9 (Cantatas from Leipzig 1725) , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Midori Suzuki, Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Chiyuki Urano, BIS 1998
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 1: City of London / For the Feast of St. John the Baptist , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Joanne Lunn, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Paul Agnew, Dietrich Henschel , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- Bach Cantates De Saint-Jean Baptiste / Intégrale des cantates sacrées Vol. 1 , Eric J. Milnes, Montréal Baroque , Suzie LeBlanc , Daniel Taylor, Charles Daniels, Stephan MacLeod, ATMA 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 : 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
- People, boast God's love, BWV 167 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 167 People, praise God's love in Bach Cantatas (English)
- People, boast God's love on the Bach website
- BWV 167 People, boast God's love, University of Vermont
- BWV 167 People, praise God's love for the text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ^ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Feast of St John the Baptist / St Giles Cripplegate, London ( en , PDF) monteverdiproductions.co.uk. 2004. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. 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. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
- ↑ Now praise, my soul, the gentlemen ( s ) bach-cantatas.com. 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
- ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 7 BWV 167 You people, praise God's love ( s ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
