Praise the Lord my soul, BWV 69a
| Bach cantata | |
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| Praise the Lord my soul | |
| BWV: | 69 / 69a |
| Occasion: | 12. Sunday after Trinity / Council election |
| Year of origin: | 1723/1748? |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 3Tr Ti 3Ob Oc Oa Fl Fg 2Vn Va Bc (69a) 3Tr Ti 3Ob Oa Fg 2Vn Va Bc (69) |
| text | |
| Unknown, Johann Oswald Knauer, Samuel Rodigast (69a) Unknown, Martin Luther (69) |
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| List of Bach cantatas | |
Praise the Lord, my soul , BWV 69a, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , written in Leipzig in 1723 for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity , August 15, 1723. In his last years, Bach reworked it into a cantata for council elections, BWV 69.
Story and text
Bach wrote the cantata in his first year in Leipzig, which he began on the first Sunday after Trinity, for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity, August 15, 1723. He performed it again around 1727, changing the scoring of the first aria , and used it in the last years of his life for a cantata for the council election, Praise the Lord, my soul, BWV 69 . The prescribed readings are 2 Cor 3, 4–12 LUT and Mk 7,31–37 LUT , the healing of the deaf and mute. The unknown cantata poet referred to the Gospel and interpreted healing as a symbol of God's constant work on people. The opening choir is therefore Ps 103,2 LUT , "Praise the Lord, my soul, and do not forget what good he has done you". The poetry mentions “tell” several times, the ability of the healed person: “Oh that I had a thousand tongues!” (Sentence 2), “My soul, open, tell” (Sentence 3) and “My mouth is weak, the tongue is dumb your price and glory ”(sentence 4). Some movements are based on a cantata text by Johann Oswald Knauer , published in Gotha in 1720 in God-sanctified singing and playing of the Zion of Peace Stone . The final chorale takes up the theme in the sixth stanza of What God does is well done by Samuel Rodigast (1663).
Cast and structure
The cantata is festively occupied with four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , a four-part choir, three trumpets , timpani , three oboes , oboe da caccia , oboe d'amore , recorder , bassoon , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: Praise the Lord, my soul
- Recitativo (soprano): Oh, that I had a thousand tongues!
- Aria (tenor, oboe da caccia, recorder, bassoon): My soul, open up, tell me
- Recitativo (alto): I just think back
- Aria (bass, oboe d'amore): My savior and sustainer
- Choral: What God does is done well, I want to stay with it.
music
Bach took into account the duality of the psalm verse and designed the opening chorus as a double fugue . Both topics are first dealt with individually and then in combination. In the first aria in the style of a pastoral , the tenor is accompanied by three independently led woodwind instruments, oboe da caccia, recorder and bassoon. In a later version around 1727, Bach changed the line-up to alto, oboe and violin, possibly because he had no suitable players for the colorful first version. In the second aria, the opposition of sorrows and joys is expressed by chromaticism that descends or ascends. Lively coloratura conclude the movement. The final chorale is the same as that in Weeping, Lamenting, Worrying, Zagen (1714), but without the obbligato violin part.
Recordings by BWV 69a
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 4 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Ruud van der Meer, Teldec 1977
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 6 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Ruth Ziesak , Elisabeth von Magnus , Paul Agnew, Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1997
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 13 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yoshie Hida, Kirsten Sollek-Avella, Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooij , BIS 1999
- Edition Bachakademie Vol. 140 - Sacred Vocal Works , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Sibylla Rubens , Anke Vondung , Marcus Ullmann, Hänssler 1999
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 6 , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Christoph Genz , Peter Harvey, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
Praise the Lord my soul, BWV 69
In his last time Bach wrote a cantata for council elections, Lobe den Herr, Meine Seele, BWV 69 , which is based on the cantata of the same name BWV 69a for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity 1723. The recitatives and the chorale were newly composed for the occasion. When he chose the chorale, he chose the third stanza of Martin Luther's Es want us God gracious (1524). Bach had previously written a new cantata several times for the council election, like 1731 We thank you, God, we thank you .
- Chorus: Praise the Lord my soul
- Recitativo (soprano): How great is God's goodness
- Aria (alto, oboe, violin): My soul, up, tell,
- Recitativo (tenor, strings, BC): The Lord has done a great thing for us
- Aria (bass, oboe d'amore): My savior and sustainer
- Chorale: Thank you, God, and praise you
Recordings by BWV 69
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 67 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Helen Donath , Julia Hamari , Adalbert Kraus , Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1982
- 1st Subscription Concert 2000/01 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Vienna Philharmonic , Juliane Banse , Ingeborg Danz , Jonas Kaufmann , Christian Gerhaher , CS-PCM Classic7, recorded live in Vienna 2000
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 6 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Ruth Ziesak , Elisabeth von Magnus , Paul Agnew, Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1997
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-Verl.).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Praise the Lord, My Soul, BWV 69 / 69a : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
for BWV 69a:
- Cantata BWV 69a Praise the Lord, my soul by Bach Cantatas (English)
- Praise the Lord my soul on the Bach website
- BWV 69a Praise the Lord, my soul Text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
for BWV 69:
- Cantata BWV 69 Praise the Lord, my soul by Bach Cantatas (English)
- Praise the Lord my soul on the Bach website
- BWV 69 Praise the Lord, my soul Text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Alfred Dürr : The cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bärenreiter, 1971.
- ^ Z. Philip Ambrose: BWV 69a Praise the Lord, My Soul ( English ) University of Vermont , College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Classics. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ↑ a b John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity / Jakobskirche, Köthen ( English , PDF; 127 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ↑ BWV 69a is on the third CD of Volume 6, published as a triple box.
- ↑ BWV 69 is on the second CD of Volume 6 published as a triple box.
