I'll go there with Fried and Freud, BWV 125
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I'll go there with Fried and Freud | |
| BWV: | 125 |
| Occasion: | Virgin Mary Purification |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Co, Ft, Ob, Oa, 2Vl, Va, Bc. |
| text | |
| Martin Luther , unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
With Fried and Freud I drive there ( BWV 125) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin based on the hymn Mit Fried und Freud I drive there by Martin Luther and performed it for the first time on February 2, 1725.
Story and words
Bach wrote the choral cantata in Leipzig for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin (Presentation of the Lord), which is celebrated on February 2nd. In his first year in Leipzig he composed for the occasion Delighted Time in the New Bund . The cantata belongs to his second cantata cycle. The prescribed readings were Mal 3,1–4 LUT , “The Lord will come into his temple”, and Lk 2,22–32 LUT , the presentation of the Lord . The gospel briefly mentions the purification of Mary and elaborates on Simeon , who was prophesied that he would not die until he saw the Messiah. His hymn of praise Nunc dimittis ("Lord, now you let your servant go in peace") is an integral part of Compline and the Anglican Evensong . Luther's hymn in four stanzas is a repositioning of this hymn of praise, which was first published in 1524. Luther transformed every verse of the Bible text into a stanza. An unknown lyricist retained the wording of the first and last stanzas and rewrote the internal stanzas to four movements. Sentence 2 is based on Luther's second stanza and viewed Simeon's view as an example of the view of one's own death. Sentence 3 comments on the full text of the 2nd stanza by inserting recitatives . The allusion to the "light for the Gentiles" from the reading and the song is seen in connection with "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved" ( Mk 16:16 LUT ). The sentences 4 and 5 are developed from the third stanza and related to the teaching of Paul, "God has set him up for faith as atonement in his blood to show his righteousness" ( Rom 3:25 LUT ), whereby the Lutheran The conviction of justification "solely through grace, only through faith, only through Christ" is emphasized even more clearly than in Luther's song.
Bach first performed the cantata on February 2, 1725.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by three vocal soloists ( alto , tenor and bass ), four-part choir, horn , flauto traverso , oboe , oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- 1. Coro: I'm going there with Fried and Freud
- 2. Aria (alto): I want with broken eyes too
- 3. Recitativo e chorale (Bass): O miracle that a heart - That makes Christ, true 'God's Son
- 4. Aria (tenor, bass): An incomprehensible light
- 5. Recitativo (alto): O unexhausted treasure of goodness
- 6. Chorale: He is salvation and blessed light
music
The opening choir begins with a ritornello in which the flute and oboe perform in concert with the strings. A motif in triplet movement rises a fifth , corresponding to the first interval of the Phrygian chant melody. The soprano sings the cantus firmus in long notes. The lower voices take part in the motif of the instruments in lines 1, 2, 3 and 5, but lines 4 and 6 are treated differently. In accordance with the text, “soft and quiet” and “death has become my sleep”, they are soft (piano), homophonic , chromatic , and they modulate in remote keys .
The alto aria is richly decorated and is accompanied by flute and oboe d'amore, over repeated identical chords in the continuo, which are labeled “legato”. The phrase "broken eyes" is shown in a broken vocal line. In the bass recitative with chorale, the chorale melody appears undecorated except for the last line, “in death and also in dying”, which has been extended by two bars and is emphasized by chromatic coloring and rich ornamentation. The elements of recitative and chorale are connected by a string motif that runs through the entire movement and was called the "joy motif" by Alfred Dürr . The final chorale is a simple four-part movement.
Julian Mincham sees similarities between the opening chorus of the cantata and that of the later composed St. Matthew Passion . Both have similar motifs in groups of three eighth notes and share dense counterpoint and the key of E minor . In this key Bach also set the Crucifixus of his B minor Mass , which he developed from the cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorge, Zagen composed in Weimar in 1714 .
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 25. Helmuth Rilling , Figural Choir of the Stuttgart Memorial Church, Bach Collegium Stuttgart , Marga Höffgen , Kurt Equiluz , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1984.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 7. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Thomas Thomaschke . Teldec , 1982.
- JS Bach: "With Fried and Freud". Philippe Herreweghe , Collegium Vocale Gent , Ingeborg Danz , Mark Padmore , Peter Kooij . Harmonia Mundi France, 1998.
- Bach Edition Vol. 14 - Cantatas Vol. 7. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Sytse Buwalda , Nico van der Meel , Bas Ramselaar . Brilliant Classics , 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Feast of Purification of Mary. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Robin Tyson , Paul Agnew , Peter Harvey . Archive production , 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 14. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz , Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2001.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 32 - BWV 111, 123, 124, 125. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Andreas Weller , Peter Kooij . UP, 2005.
- I'll go there with Fried and Freud. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Alex Potter, Andreas Post, Markus Volpert. Martin Meyer (reflection). DVD. Gallus-Media, 2008. Online
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas Johann Sebastian 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, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 .
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- I'm going there with Fried and Freud, BWV 125 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- “With Fried and Freud I'll go there” BWV 125 source material on Bach Digital from the Leipzig Bach Archive
- Cantata BWV 125 With Fried and Freud I'm going there on the bach-cantatas website
- With Fried and Freud I go there on the Bach.de website
- BWV 125 With Fried and Freud I'm going there text, structure, cast, at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ With Fried and Freud / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / I drive with Fried and Freud ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ a b Klaus Hofmann: Mit Fried und Freud I drive there / In peace and joy I shall depart, BWV 125 ( English , PDF; 391 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ a b Christoph Wolff : Conclusion of the second yearly cycle (1724-25) of the Leipzig church cantatas (PDF) 2000, p. 3 (accessed on February 2, 2012).
- ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 38 BWV 125, With Fried and Freud I'm going there ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
