Verily, verily, I tell you
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Verily, verily, I tell you | |
| BWV: | 86 |
| Occasion: | Rogate |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Oa 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Truly, truly, I tell you ( BWV 86) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the fifth Sunday after Easter, Rogate , and performed it for the first time on May 14, 1724.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata in Leipzig for the Sunday Rogate , the fifth Sunday after Easter. The prescribed readings for Sunday were Jak 1,22–27 LUT and Joh 16,23–30 LUT from Jesus' farewell speeches. The Gospel contains the promise of Jesus: "Truly, truly, I say to you: If you will ask the Father for something in my name, he will give it to you", which the unknown lyricist chose for the 1st movement of the cantata. As sentence 3 he uses the 16th stanza of the chorale Come here to me, speaks God's son (1530) by Georg Grünwald and as the final chorale the eleventh stanza of Es ist das Heil unskommen by Paul Speratus (1524). The poet carefully deals with the question of how the promise can be reconciled with life experience. In sentence 2 he uses the image of a rose with thorns to illustrate contradicting aspects. In sentences 3 and 4 he consolidates the promise, which, however, must be seen in connection with time. Sentence 5 deals with waiting for the promise to be fulfilled, and the final chorale confirms that God knows the right time. The structure of the six movements - a Gospel quote at the beginning, chorales as movements 3 and 6, the sequence of recitative and arias - is similar to that in Where are you going? , first performed a week earlier.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by three vocal soloists, alto tenor and bass , four-part choir only in the final chorale, two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo . The cantus firmus in movement 3 is often adopted by the choir soprano.
- Arioso (bass): Verily, verily, I tell you
- Aria (old): I want to break roses
- Chorale (soprano): And what the eternally good God
- Recitativo (tenor): God does not make it the same as the world
- Aria (tenor): God certainly helps
- Chorale: Hope was the right time
music
Bach assigned the biblical quote to the bass as the Vox Christi . The instruments, strings, which were presumably amplified by oboes, introduce motifs which the singing voice then takes over. The bass performs the rather long text three times while the instruments continue the vocal motifs.
In movement 2, the alto is accompanied by the strings and an obbligato violin, whose virtuoso figurations perhaps illustrate the heavenly light that is promised as the final fulfillment. In movement three, the soprano sings the cantus firmus of the chorale in long, undecorated notes, embedded in a trio of two oboi d'amore and continuo. In movement 5, the last aria, the violin introduces a five-note motif, which the tenor adopts to the words “God certainly helps”. The violin plays the motif repeatedly, as if reinforcing the promise. The final chorale is composed of four parts.
Recordings
- LP / CD
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas, Vol. 5. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Ruud van der Meer . Teldec , 1979.
- The Bach Cantata, Vol. 34. , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Adalbert Kraus , Walter Heldwein . Hänssler, 1979.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatasm Vol. 9. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Sibylla Rubens , Bernhard Landauer , Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1998.
- Bach Cantatas, Vol. 25: Altenburg / Warwick. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Katharine Fuge , Robin Tyson , Steve Davisilim , Stephan Loges . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 19 (Cantatas from Leipzig 1724). Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , Makoto Sakurada , Stephan MacLeod . UP, 2001.
- Bach: Cantatas BWV 108, 86, 11, 44. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Siri Thornhill , Petra Noskaiová , Christoph Genz , Jan van der Crabben . Accent, 2010.
- DVD
- Verily, verily, I tell you. Cantata BWV 86. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Terry Wey , Johannes Kaleschke , Markus Volpert . Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Rudolf Wachter . Gallus Media, 2015.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach. 1947, 5th ed. 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
- Verily, verily, I tell you, BWV 86 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 86 Truly, truly, I tell you the text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Cantata BWV 86 Verily, verily, I tell you on bach cantatas website
- Truly, truly, I tell you on the Bach website
- BWV 86 Verily, verily, I tell you University of Vermont
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steven E. Ritter: Bach: Cantatas Bwv 108, 86, 11, 44 / Kuijken, Le Petite Band . arkivmusic.com. 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2011.
- ↑ Product information on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on April 30, 2015.
