What should I do with you, Ephraim
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| What should I do with you, Ephraim | |
| BWV: | 89 |
| Occasion: | 22nd Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1723 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SAB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Co 2Ob 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
What should I do with you, Ephraim ( BWV 89) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1723 for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on October 24th, 1723.
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata in his first year in office in Leipzig in 1723 for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for Sunday were Phil 1: 3–11 LUT , “Thanks and petition of Paul for the church in Philippi”, and Mt 18 : 23–35 LUT , the parable of the scoundrel .
The unknown lyricist emphasized the contrast between the righteousness of God and the injustice of man, which is given in the Gospel. It begins with a suitable quote from the prophet Hosea , Hos 11,8 LUT . The next two movements, recitative and aria , deal with the sinful man, a further coupling of recitative and aria on the other hand, God's grace. The final chorale is the 7th stanza of Johann Heermann's Where shall I flee hin (1630), a chorale that Bach dealt with a year later in his chorale cantata Where shall I flee to .
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by three vocal soloists ( soprano , alto and bass ), four-part choir only in the final chorale, horn , two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- 1. Aria (bass): What should I do with you, Ephraim
- 2. Recitativo (old): Yes, of course God should
- 3. Aria (Alt): A merciless court
- 4. Recitativo (soprano): Well! my heart lays
- 5. Aria (soprano): Righteous God, oh, you do the math
- 6. Chorale: I am lacking a lot
music
The cantata is made up of chamber music. Only the chorale has four voices; the alto sings of sin, the soprano of grace, the bass is the voice of God in the opening movement. Some copies of individual parts refer to this movement as an aria, but it is not known whether the designation is authorized by Bach. It bears some features of an aria, for example a ritornello at the beginning and as a structure, but also features of an arioso , for example the free treatment of the text sections. The last section, which speaks of God's loving mercy (“my mercy is too ardent”), is embedded in the ritornello, after which it is repeated instrumentally again. A motif of the ritornello resembles a figure from the choir Let's not divide the St. John Passion and in both cases can stand for indecision.
The following three movements, two recitatives and an expressive aria, are only accompanied by the continuo. In the last aria an obbligato oboe plays. The final chorale is four-part, the melody in the soprano is reinforced by horn, oboes and violin I.
Recordings
- LP / CD
- JS Bach: Cantatas No. 89, No. 90, No. 161 , Jaap Schröder , Junge Kantorei , Concerto Amsterdam , Sheila Armstrong , Helen Watts , Max van Egmond , Telefunken 1969
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 56 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Philippe Huttenlocher , Hänssler 1977
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas, Vol. 5. Gustav Leonhardt , Boys Choir Hannover , Leonhardt-Consort , Soloist of the Boys Choir Hannover, Paul Esswood , Max van Egmond . Telefunken , 1979.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas, Vol. 8. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Dorothea Röschmann , Bogna Bartosz , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1998.
- Bach Edition Vol. 15 - Cantatas Vol. 8. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton , Sytse Buwalda , Bas Ramselaar . Brilliant Classics, 2000.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 12: Bach Cantatas Vol. 12: Tooting / Winchester / For the 22nd Sunday after Trinity. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Joanne Lunn , Robin Tyson , Peter Harvey . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 14 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1723. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Midori Suzuki , Robin Blaze , Chiyuki Urano . UNTIL 2000.
- DVD
- "What should I do with you, Ephraim". Cantata BWV 89. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Nuria Rial (soprano), Markus Forster (alto), Raphael Höhn (tenor), Dominik Wörner (bass). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Thomas Cerny . 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-Verlag )
- 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 89 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 89 What should I make of you, Ephraim? on bach cantata's website
- What should I do with you, Ephraim? on the Bach website
- BWV 89 What should I make of you, Ephraim? Text, structure and line-up on Walter F. Bischof's personal homepage at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where should I flee to / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Where should I flee / To my dear God ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity / All Saints, Tooting ( English , PDF; 158 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
