Where are you going
| Bach cantata | |
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| Where are you going | |
| BWV: | 166 |
| Occasion: | Cantata |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | If; Str; BC |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Where are you going ( BWV 166) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the fourth Sunday after Easter, Cantata , and performed it for the first time on May 7, 1724.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata in Leipzig for Cantata Sunday , the fourth 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. The unknown poet used the question from the Gospel for the first movement of the cantata, which Bach assigned to the bass as the Vox Christi . As the third movement, he inserted the third stanza of the chorale Herr Jesu Christ, I know well (1582) by Bartholomäus Ringwaldt , as the final chorale Aemilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt's Who knows how near my end (1688).
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by three soloists, alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir only in the final chorale, oboe , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- (Bass): Where are you going
- Aria (tenor): I want to think of the sky
- Chant (soprano): I ask you, Lord Jesus Christ
- Recitativo (bass): Just as the rainwater soon runs away
- Aria (Alt): Be careful
- Chorale: Who knows how close my end is to me
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 32. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Helen Watts , Aldo Baldin , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1978.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9. Gustav Leonhardt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt Consort, soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Teldec , 1987.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 9 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bernhard Landauer , Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand 1998
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 24: Altenburg / Warwick. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Robin Tyson, James Gilchrist , Stephen Varcoe . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 19. (Cantatas from Leipzig 1724). Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Makoto Sakurada, Stephan MacLeod. UP, 2001.
- Where are you going Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Michi Gaigg (concertmaster), Terry Wey, Gerd Türk, Markus Volpert. Katharina Hoby-Peter (reflection.) DVD. Gallus Media, 2008.
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
- Where are you going ?, BWV 166 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 166 Where are you going? at Bach Cantatas (English)
- Where are you going on the Bach website
- BWV 166 Where are you going? University of Vermont
- BWV 166 Where are you going? Text, structure and line-up on Walter F. Bischof's personal homepage at the University of Alberta
