Take what is yours and go
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Take what is yours and go | |
| BWV: | 144 |
| Occasion: | Septuagesimae |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SAT |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Whether Oa 2Vn Va Bc |
| text | |
| Unknown poet, | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Take what is yours and go there ( BWV 144) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the Sunday Septuagesimae and performed it for the first time on February 6, 1724.
Story and words
In his first year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the Sunday Septuagesimae , the third Sunday before Ash Wednesday , and performed it for the first time on February 6, 1724. The prescribed readings were 1 Cor 9.24 LUT - 1 Cor 10.5 LUT , “race for victory”, and Mt 20.1-16 LUT , the parable of the workers in the vineyard . The unknown lyricist takes only one thought from the Gospel: frugality is a key word in his text. The opening chorus is based on verse 14 of the Gospel. Movement 3 is the first stanza of Samuel Rodigast's chorale. What God does is well done . The final chorale is the first stanza of the song by Albrecht von Preußen What my God wants, that g'scheh all time (1547).
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of three soloists, soprano , alto and tenor , four-part choir, two oboes , oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: Take what's yours and go
- Aria (old): Don't murmur, dear Christian
- Chorale: What God does is done well
- Recitativo (tenor): Where frugality reigns
- Aria (soprano, oboe d'amore): Frugality is a treasure in this life
- Choral: What my God wants, that always happens
music
Bach composes the extremely short Bible text of the opening choir as a motet-like fugue , which is played by the instruments colla parte . In this way he attains increased awareness of the words. The text part “go there” is first introduced in the slow theme, but then repeated twice as a counter-subject at four times the speed. This treatment of the text was already admired in 1760 by the Berlin music theorist Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg : "the excellent declamation" which "the composer had made in the main sentence and in a little special game with the 'go there'". Bach repeats the lively “go there” motif sixty times in 68 bars. The first aria has the character of a minuet . In “Don't murmur, dear Christ”, the murmuring is made audible through repetition in the accompaniment. Movement 3 is the first stanza of a chorale that Bach used in its entirety a year later for his choral cantata BWV 99 , and again in the 1730s for BWV 100 . His beginning “What God does is done well” is taken up again in the following recitative as a free arioso . An obbligato oboe d'amore accompanies the following soprano aria. Instead of a da capo, the entire text is repeated in free variation. The final chorale is simply four-part.
Recordings
LP / CD
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 - Cantatas III. Günther Ramin , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , Elisabeth Meinel-Asbahr , Lotte Wolf-Matthäus , Gert Lutze . Eterna, 1952.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 25 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Adalbert Kraus . Hänssler, 1978.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 8. Gustav Leonhardt , Boys Choir Hanover , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt-Consort , Soloist of the Boys Choir Hanover, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz . Teldec , 1984.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Lisa Larsson , Bogna Bartosz , Gerd Türk . Antoine Marchand, 1997.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 9. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton , Sytse Buwalda , Knut Schoch . Brilliant Classics, 1999.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 20: Naarden / Southwell. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Miah Persson , Wilke te Brummelstroete , James Oxley . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 17 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1724. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk. UP , 2001.
DVD
- Take what is yours and go. Cantata BWV 144. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Nuria Rial (soprano), Markus Forster (alto), Rahael Höhn (tenor). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Gerhard Walter . Gallus Media, 2014.
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
Web links
- Cantata BWV 144 “Take what is yours and go there” : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 144 "Take what is yours and go there" on bach-cantatas.com (English)
- Take what is yours and go to BWV 144 on the Bach website
- Julian Mincham: BWV 144 “Take what is yours and go there” , Chapter 41 in A listener and student guide . (English)
- BWV 144 Take what is yours and go Text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for Septuagesima / Grote Kerk, Naarden ( English , PDF) solideogloria.co.uk. 2009. Archived from the original on September 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
