Anthony Prisk | Bach's Christmas Oratorio (trumpet excerpt) Five vocal soloists are required: two sopranos (sI, sII), alto (a), tenor (t) and bass (b). [3][44], Quia respexit humilitatem (Because he has looked upon the humility) is an aria sung by soprano I with an obbligato oboe (oboe d'amore in the D major version). He had already dazzled his new community over the previous six months with a mind-boggling pace of cantata performances each week, only a handful of which weren’t completely new compositions. 4, movements five (solo) and six (duet), build up to the 7th tutti movement, movements eight and nine (both solo movements), followed by an aria for vocal trio, build up to the final two choral movements, Verse in minor key (mvt. The first time the Christmas hymns of the E-flat major version of Bach's Magnificat were printed was in the same volume as the D major version of the Magnificat, in the 1862 Bach Gesellschaft XI/1 publication, which presented the hymns in an annex. [23] In a Lutheran tradition there is for example Schütz' Latin Magnificat, SWV 468. BM: The two books of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier offer a limitless range of both technical difficulty and emotional expression. Przeczytaj recenzję Bach, J.S. And among the hundreds of cantatas, the Passions, the masses, and the oratorios, Magnificat is unique. [77][78], After the composer's death the autographs of both the E-flat major and the D major version of the Magnificat were owned by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. [96] LP recordings of the early 1950s included live performances of the Magnificat directed by Otto Klemperer and by Herbert von Karajan, the last one with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as soprano. The Baroque orchestra for BWV 243.1 consists of "due violini, due oboe, tre trombi, tamburi, basson, viola e basso continuo",[63] i.e. In that publication the hymns were however not transposed to fit in the D major setting of the Magnificat. [72] The movements ends with a more homophonic section in which the bass has the theme once more, while soprano I sings long suspended notes in a descending scale covering almost an octave. Bach sets this first laudes a cappella in four parts, and, like the two preceding movements, in the tonic key. In Bach's time the feast day of Visitation fell on 2 July. [44] The sound in the E-flat major version is somewhat harsher than in the D major version, for example the bass line in measure three, and in measure 24 where the first version has a dissonant dominant ninth which was changed to a less dissonant harmony in the later version. Coming up, it’s the original Christmas setting of the Song of Mary, or Magnificat. [24] Such an example can be found in Claudio Monteverdi's Magnificat a 7 voci, one of two alternative Magnificat settings included in his Vespro della Beata Vergine. 21; however, its authenticity was doubted. Welcome to The Bach Hour from WCRB, Classical Radio Boston. A. Dürr", "Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz : D-B Mus. During that period Bach had been composing a Kyrie-Gloria mass in B minor which he dedicated to the successor, Frederick Augustus II, in a letter signed 27 July 1733. It is the first major liturgical composition on a Latin text by Bach. [33][34], The first occasion after the mourning period that re-allowed concerted church music was the feast of Visitation, Thursday 2 July 1733. (1862) Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 11.1. Here is a Bach’s Magnificat, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, alto Ingeborg Danz, tenor Mark Padmore, and bass Sebastian Noack. Bach also included three settings of the chorale melody in his Christmas Oratorio. The tonus peregrinus variant that is associated with Luther's German Magnificat appears in compositions by, among others, Johann Hermann Schein, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Pachelbel and Dietrich Buxtehude. Before Magnificat, here is pianist Andras Schiff, with part of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. [36][37][38] That would have been exactly ten years before the transposed version, and composed for the same Marian feast. As natural trumpets were usually tuned in D in Saxony,[61] this is given as a reason why Bach transposed the initial E-flat major version to D major.[62]. Bach’s] music is a phenomenon of the reality of the inconceivable as is the cosmos itself. [62] The last measures of the Virga Jesse, missing from the autograph score, were in this edition completed on the base of a similar composition by Bach. The Magnificat is the first large choral work that Bach composed after his appointment in Leipzig in the spring of 1723. Bach: Magnificat; Cantata BWV 80/Herreweghe. N. Jenkins)", "Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot BWV 39; BC A 96 / Cantata", "Bach Cantata Translations / BWV 243a – "Magnificat" (E-flat Major)", "Bachs Es-Dur-Magnificat BWV 243a – eine genuine Weihnachtsmusik? 30 aus Johann Sebastian Bachs Notenbibliothek", "Alia pia Cantio de Incarnatione Jesu Christi, à 4. In movement 10 (Suscepit Israel) both sopranos sing together with the alto. Another German libretto paraphrasing the Magnificat, published by Picander in his 1728–29 cantata cycle for performance on 2 July 1728, may have been set by Bach. Kuhnau's Magnificat, his largest extant vocal work, has a similar orchestration as the first version of Bach's Magnificat (differences: Kuhnau's has a second viola, Bach's has two recorders in one movement), and it has the same "expandability" with settings of the same laudes for a Christmas performance. Kuhnau's Magnificat has standard SATB soloists, but like Bach's, a SSATB choir. [74] Some commentators see an atmosphere close to aggression,[75] others rather an evocation of multitude. [59] The duration of the version without Christmas hymns is comparable with that of an average Bach cantata. Bach: Magnificat / Christmas Cantata - Collegium Vocale Gent, Herreweghe Philippe , tylko w empik.com: . Sigiswald Kuijken: La Petite Bande. [3][44] Where the Latin of the preceding movements may have been largely incomprehensible for the congregation in Bach's time, here is a first movement that was not only recognizable for the words, but also for the melody: the Vom Himmel hoch chorale would have been sung by the congregation the preceding evening during the Christmas Eve service.[44]. Extending a standard SATB choir with more voice parts was however no novelty for Magnificat compositions: for example Johann Pachelbel, the teacher of Johann Sebastian's eldest brother, had composed half a dozen Magnificats for SSATB choir, and one for soli, SSATB double choir and orchestra. [15] He uses it again in his "German Magnificat", i.e. Compared to Lutheran practice elsewhere, an uncharacteristic amount of Latin was used in church services in Leipzig. [69] When inserting the Christmas hymns, building up to the seventh movement alternates arias with choral movements, while in the second half of the composition the choral movements at the outer ends are separated by a set of four arias: solo → solo → duet → trio. Around 1733 Bach filed two cantatas by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, for the fifth and the sixth Sunday after Trinity (5 and 12 July in 1733): Bach may have relied on church music by other composers for the services in Leipzig in July 1733, while composing and copying out the performance parts of the extensive first part of the Mass in B minor. Other extended choral settings by Bach include his Sanctus for six vocal parts (SSSATB) for Christmas 1724, and compositions for double choir like the St Matthew Passion (1727) and the secular cantata Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215 (1734). [44] The score of that so-called "little" Magnificat (Kleine Magnificat) was rediscovered in the 20th century, and listed as BWV Anh. In Leipzig, the Magnificat was regularly part of Sunday services, sung in German on ordinary Sundays but more elaborately and in Latin on the high holidays (Christmas, Easter and Pentecost)[3] and on the three Marian feasts Annunciation, Visitation and Purification.[4][5]. 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Through the course of almost half a century, J.S. In this form Helmuth Rilling's recording with the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart and the Figuralchor der Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart appeared in 1967 with a performance time of 40:06. The four Christmas interpolations are placed after the second, the fifth, the seventh and the ninth movement on the Magnificat text. The singers keep the leading role, while groups of instruments play additional motives. [23] These laudes illustrate what the Gospels describe as the circumstances around Christ's birth, and were embedded in an old tradition named Kindleinwiegen (rocking of the cradle). Kuhnau's Magnificat setting also used a SSATB choir. A. Dürr", "Bach Magnificat in D & E flat BWV 243 & 243a / (Novello edition ed.

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