We have to go through a lot of tribulation
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| We have to go through a lot of tribulation | |
| BWV: | 146 |
| Occasion: | Jubilate |
| Year of origin: | 1726? |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Fl; Oa; Ot; Org; Str; BC |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
We have to go through much tribulation ( BWV 146) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate . The earliest date for the first performance is May 12, 1726.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata in Leipzig for the Sunday Jubilate , the third Sunday after Easter. The prescribed readings for Sunday were 1 Petr 2,11–20 LUT and Joh 16,16–23 LUT from Jesus' farewell speeches. Bach set the contrast between mourning and joy mentioned in it to music for the same occasion, first in Weimar in 1714 , weeping, lamenting, worrying , then in Leipzig in 1725, you will weep and howl . Therefore, the earliest date for the first performance is May 12, 1726. April 18, 1728 is another possibility. The unknown lyricist begins with a verse from the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 14:22 LUT , which Salomon Franck had already used for the first recitative of the Weimar cantata. The following three sentences lament the suffering in the world, while three more sentences express hope in the kingdom of God . The main theme is the longing for death. Movement 5 is a paraphrase of Ps 126,5 LUT , which Brahms also chose for Ein deutsches Requiem . Sentence 6 refers to Rom 8,18 LUT : Because I am convinced that sufferings at this time do not have any weight compared to the glory that is to be revealed to us. Only the music of the final chorale has survived. The ninth stanza of Gregorius Richter's Let off your tears was proposed.
Occupation and structure
The cantata consists of four soloists, soprano , alto tenor and bass , four-part choir, flute, two oboe d'amore , taille ( baroque oboe in tenor position), obbligato organ , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Sinfonia
- Coro: We have to enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation
- Aria (alto): I want to go to heaven
- Recitativo (soprano): Oh! who would already be in heaven!
- Aria (soprano): I sow my teeth
- Recitativo (tenor): I am ready to patiently endure my cross
- Aria (tenor, bass): How do I want to be happy, how do I want to refresh myself
- Chorale: For whoever drives there blissfully, or Oh, I've already seen
music
Two movements in the cantata, the introductory sinfonia and the first choral movement, are based on Bach's harpsichord concerto in D minor BWV 1052 , which probably goes back to a missing violin concerto. Movement 3 is an alto aria with an obbligato violin that turns "towards heaven". The final chorale is set in four parts to the melody of Be lively, my mind .
Recordings
- LP / CD
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 33. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Helen Donath , Marga Höffgen , Kurt Equiluz , Hanns-Friedrich Kunz . Hänssler, 1973.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 6. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Vienna , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Thomas Hampson . Teldec , 1980.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 24: Altenburg / Warwick. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Brigitte Geller , William Towers , Mark Padmore , Julian Clarkson . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 15. Sibylla Rubens , Bogna Bartosz , James Gilchrist , Klaus Mertens , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Ton Koopman . Antoine Marchand, 2001.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 19 (Cantatas from Leipzig 1724). Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Rachel Nicholls , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk , Peter Kooy . UNTIL 2008.
- DVD
- "We have to go through a lot of tribulation". Cantata BWV 146. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Ulrike Hofbauer , Markus Forster , Hans Jörg Mammel , Wolf Matthias Friedrich . Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Miriam Meckel . Gallus Media, 2013.
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 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig)
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- We are facing much tribulation, BWV 146 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 146 We are going through a lot of tribulation on the bach cantatas website
- We have had a lot of tribulation on the Bach website
- BWV 146 We have to go through much tribulation text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
