They will put you under their spell, BWV 183
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| They will put you under their spell | |
| BWV: | 183 |
| Occasion: | Exaudi |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Oc Oa Vp 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Christiana Mariana from Ziegler | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
They will put you under their spell ( BWV 183) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for Exaudi , the Sunday after Ascension , and performed it for the first time on May 13, 1725.
Another cantata by Bach on the same occasion from 1724 begins with the same passage from the Bible, which is listed as BWV 44 .
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the Sunday Exaudi and performed it for the first time on May 13, 1725. In his second year in Leipzig, Bach consistently composed choral cantatas from the first Sunday after Trinity to Palm Sunday in his second cycle of cantatas , but at Easter he had switched back to cantatas on a freer textual basis. This included nine cantatas based on texts by the poet Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , including the cantata for Exaudi. Like most of the nine, Bach later assigned them to his third cycle of cantatas.
The prescribed readings for the feast day were 1 Petr 4,8–11 LUT and Joh 15,26 LUT to Joh 16,4 LUT from Jesus' farewell speeches, the promise of the Holy Spirit as support and the announcement of persecution. The poet begins the cantata with the same quotation from the Bible from Joh 16,2 LUT that was used a year earlier in the text of an unknown poet for the cantata BWV 44 for the same occasion. She emphasizes the fearlessness that is possible for a person who relies on "Jesus' arm". In sentences 2 and 3 she refers to the announced assistance. The final chorale is the fifth stanza of Paul Gerhardt's Zeuch ein zu dich toren .
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by four soloists, soprano , alto tenor and bass , four-part choir in the final chorale, an unusual oboe choir of two oboe da caccia , two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola , violoncello piccolo and basso continuo .
- Recitativo (bass): They will cast a spell over you
- Aria (tenor): I am not afraid of death
- Recitativo (Alt): I am ready to give up my blood and poor life
- Aria (soprano): Supreme Comforter, Holy Spirit
- Chorale: You are a spirit that teaches
music
Bach points out the Jesus word at the beginning, "They will put you under a spell, but the time comes when whoever kills you will think that he is doing God a service" ( Jn 16.2 LUT according to the last edition Hand), the bass as the Vox Christi (voice of Christ), while the year before he had designed the two movements of the verse as a two-part movement, as a duet, which was juxtaposed with an excited choral movement. In this cantata he uses the quotation from the Bible as a recitative of only five bars. It is meaningfully accompanied by two oboi da caccia and two oboi d'amore over an organ point of continuo. In the first aria , which denies the fear of the horror of death, a violoncello piccolo plays incessant runs. Movement 3 is again a recitativo accompagnato , the accompaniment of which Bach made even more complex: the strings hold chords for a long time, while the oboes alternately repeat a motif of four notes that is sung from the alto to the words “Ich binready”. The second aria is accompanied by the strings and the oboe da caccia in unison , giving both arias a coloring by instruments in the low register. The cantata is concluded with a four-part set on the melody Help me praise God's goodness .
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 36 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Julia Hamari , Peter Schreier , Walter Heldwein, Hänssler 1981
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 10 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Thomas Hampson , Teldec 1988
- JS Bach: Cantatas with Violoncelle Piccolo (Vol. 2) , Christophe Coin , Das Leipziger Concerto Vocale, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Barbara Schlick , Andreas Scholl , Christoph Prégardien , Gotthold Schwarz , Auvidis Astrée 1994
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 25: Dresden / Sherborne , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew, Panajotis Iconomou, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 15 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Deborah York, Bogna Bartosz, Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 2001
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 39 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Carolyn Sampson , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij , BIS 2007
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 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-Verlag).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- They will cast a spell over you, BWV 183 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 183 They will cast a spell over you at Bach Cantatas (English)
- They will put you under their spell on the Bach website
- BWV 183 They will put you under the spell of the University of Vermont
- BWV 183 They will put you under the spell Text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Help me praise God's goodness at Bach Cantatas (English)
