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Bach structured the cantata six movements and scored it for soprano and bass soloists, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of oboe d'amore, two violins, viola, violoncello piccolo, organ and basso continuo. [2] Klaus Hofmann summarizes: "Bach has clothed his music in the 'wedding garments' of exquisite scoring". [4] Sinfonia
Bach scored the work for four vocal soloists (soprano (S), alto (A), tenor (T) and bass (B)), a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of horn (Co) to double the soprano in the chorale, flauto traverso (Ft), oboe d'amore (Oa), two violin parts (Vl), one viola part (Va), violoncell piccolo (Vp), and basso continuo.
The text marks a farewell to love in the world: "Stirb in mir, Welt und alle deine Liebe" (Die in me, world and all your love). [1] The music of the aria, marked " siciliano " as the slow movement of the harpsichord concerto, has been regarded as a "farewell to worldly life", [ 4 ] in "a mood of heart-stopping intensity", [ 3 ] also as a mystic ...
Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten (Dissipate, you troublesome shadows), [1] BWV 202, [a] is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. [2] [3] It was likely composed for a wedding, but scholars disagree on the dating which could be as early as Bach's tenure in Weimar, around 1714, while it has traditionally been connected to his wedding to Anna Magdalena on 3 December 1721 in Köthen.
The cantata is the ninth work of Bach's second annual cycle in Leipzig, the chorale cantata cycle.He composed it for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity.The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, a warning of false gods and consolation in temptation (1 Corinthians 10:6–13), and from the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16:1–9). [2]
Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch!) [1] is the title of two church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.He composed a first version, BWV 70a, in Weimar for the second Sunday in Advent of 1716 and expanded it in 1723 in Leipzig to BWV 70, a cantata in two parts for the 26th Sunday after Trinity.
The libretto, of rather dry and didactic quality, is focused on the contrast between light and dark, viewing Jesus as the light of a sinful world. The author was possibly a theologian, who alluded to the Book of Revelation in the last aria. [3] Bach first performed the cantata on 2 April 1725. [2]
The St Mark Passion (German: Markus-Passion), BWV 247, is a lost Passion setting by Johann Sebastian Bach, first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday, 23 March 1731.Though Bach's music is lost, the libretto by Picander is still extant, and from this, the work can to some degree be reconstructed.