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"East to West" is a contemporary Christian song lasting four minutes and 26 seconds. [3] It was written in common time in the key of F ♯ minor at a tempo of 73 beats per minute. The vocal range in the song ranges from the low note of D 4 to the high note of F ♯ 5. [2]
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate.The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle of Peter, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man" (1 Peter 2:11–20), and from the Gospel of John, Jesus announcing his second coming in the so-called Farewell Discourse, saying "your sorrow shall be turned into joy" (John 16:16–23).
Neal Coomer and Jay DeMarcus met in Cleveland, Tennessee, at Lee College (now Lee University) and decided to form a Christian pop group along the lines of Level 42 or Go West. They released two albums, East to West in 1993 and North of the Sky, in 1995, which hit No. 16 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart that same year. [1]
The cantata is opened by a sinfonia for concertante organ and orchestra, [3] probably the final movement of a lost concerto composed in Köthen, the model for the Concerto II in E major, BWV 1053, for harpsichord. Two weeks before, Bach had used the two other movements of that concerto in his cantata Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169. [2]
The Kreuzstab cantata has been coupled with other works by Bach for solo bass, especially Ich habe genug, BWV 82—a paraphrase of the Song of Simeon—and an impassioned cantata taking longing for death as its theme. [67] Sometimes the fragmentary cantata Der Friede sei mit dir, BWV 158, related to peace (Friede) has been added. [28] [68] [69 ...
Bach wrote the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the 19th Sunday after Trinity. [2] [3] [4] It is part of his chorale cantata cycle.The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians – "put on the new man, which after God is created" (Ephesians 4:22–28) – and from the Gospel of Matthew, Healing the paralytic at Capernaum (Matthew 9:1–8).
Bach first performed the cantata on 3 November 1715 (according to the musicologist Alfred Dürr) [5] or on 25 October 1716. [3] Bach performed the cantata again on 10 October 1723 in his first year in Leipzig in a revised version, including a corno da tirarsi, a baroque wind instrument mentioned only in Bach's music and thought to have been ...
Bach structured the cantata in six movements, beginning with a duet, followed by a series of alternating recitatives and arias and concluded by a chorale. [7] Similar to several other cantatas on words by Franck, it is scored for a small ensemble: four vocal soloists (soprano (S), alto (A), tenor (T) and bass (B)), oboe (Ob), two violins (Vl), viola (Va), and basso continuo (Bc) including ...