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Bach – Secular Cantatas, Vol. 6: 'Trauerode'

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Catalogue numberBIS-2181 SACD
Release date2016-02-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz (track 1-11), 44100Hz (track 12-25)
Total time78:55

Although Bach's sacred cantatas span a huge expressive range and display a striking stylistic diversity, they were all composed for performance during a church service. In the case of the secular cantatas, on the other hand, their respective purpose is as varied as their subject matter and emotional content. They were usually commissions intended for occasions such as weddings, funerals and birthdays. As such they were sometimes performed in churches, and some of them have religious texts, but as the works gathered here exemplify, they were not related to the particular theme of the church service on a certain day. The cantata BWV 198, often called the Trauerode (funeral ode) was performed at an imposing ceremony in Leipzig's Paulinerkirche in 1727, held in order to mark the passing of Christiane Eberhardine, wife of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. The work adopts a suitably elevated style, but the text is resolutely secular, containing neither Bible quotations nor hymns. (A few years later, much of the music from the cantata did find its way into a thoroughly sacred context, however, as Bach reused it in his now lost St Mark Passion.) Compared to BWV 198, the circumstances surrounding Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083, are far more uncertain: why Bach at a late stage in his life (around 1746) decided to make an arrangement of Pergolesi's famous Stabat mater isn't known. In the case of the Pergolesi arrangement, the text is religious – a German paraphrase of the penitential Psalm 51 replaces the medieval sequence about Mary mourning Christ at the cross – but the work doesn't seem to have had any liturgical purpose. Bach's arrangement of this sequence of duets and arias for soprano and alto offers an intriguing opportunity to hear the ‘new music’ of the 1730’s, filtered through the sensibility of the great master of a style which was already becoming a thing of the past.
 
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  Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian
  Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl, BWV 198 33:26
01 1. [Chorus]. Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl … 05:40 $ 1.36 USD
02 2. Recitativo (Soprano). Dein Sachsen, dein bestürztes
Meißen …
01:32 $ 0.37 USD
03 3. Aria (Soprano). Verstummt, verstummt, ihr holden
Saiten! …
03:46 $ 0.90 USD
04 4. Recitativo (Alto). Der Glocken bebendes Getön … 00:51 $ 0.20 USD
05 5. Aria (Alto). Wie starb die Heldin so vergnügt! … 07:10 $ 1.72 USD
06 6. Recitativo (Tenore). Ihr Leben ließ die Kunst zu
sterben …
01:10 $ 0.28 USD
07 7. Chorus. An dir, du Fürbild großer Frauen … 01:57 $ 0.47 USD
08 8. [Aria] (Tenore). Der Ewigkeit saphirnes Haus … 03:40 $ 0.88 USD
09 9. Recitativo (Basso). Was Wunder ists? Du bist es
wert …
02:17 $ 0.55 USD
10 10. Chorus ultimus. Doch, Königin! du stirbest nicht … 05:23 $ 1.29 USD
 
  Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde, BWV 53
11 Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde, aria, BWV 53 07:00 $ 1.68 USD
 
  Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden (Psalm 51), BWV 1083 37:16
12 Versus 1 (Soprano, Alto). Tilge, Höchster, meine
Sünden …
04:22 $ 1.05 USD
13 Versus 2 (Soprano). Ist mein Herz in Missetaten … 02:07 $ 0.51 USD
14 Versus 3 (Soprano, Alto). Missetaten, die mich
drücken …
02:29 $ 0.60 USD
15 Versus 4 (Alto). Dich erzürnt mein Tun und Lassen … 01:59 $ 0.48 USD
16 Versus 5 (Soprano, Alto). Wer wird seine Schuld
verneinen …
02:11 $ 0.52 USD
17 Versus 6 (Soprano, Alto). Siehe! ich bin in Sünd
empfangen …
00:43 $ 0.17 USD
18 Versus 7 (Soprano). Sieh, du willst die Wahrheit haben … 02:49 $ 0.68 USD
19 Versus 8 (Alto). Wasche mich doch rein von Sünden … 02:00 $ 0.48 USD
20 Versus 9 (Soprano, Alto). Lass mich Freud und Wonne
spüren …
02:18 $ 0.55 USD
21 Versus 10 (Soprano, Alto). Schaue nicht auf meine
Sünden …
05:53 $ 1.41 USD
22 Versus 11 (Alto). Öffne Lippen, Mund und Seele … 03:29 $ 0.84 USD
23 Versus 12 (Soprano, Alto). Denn du willst kein Opfer
haben …
03:09 $ 0.76 USD
24 Versus 13 (Soprano, Alto). Lass dein Zion blühend
dauern …
01:51 $ 0.44 USD
25 Versus 14 (Soprano, Alto). Amen 01:56 $ 0.46 USD
 
  Album total 78:55
ComposerBach, Johann Sebastian
ConductorSuzuki, Masaaki
OrchestraBach Collegium Japan
SopranoLunn, Joanne
Sampson, Carolyn
AltoBlaze, Robin
TenorTurk (Türk), Gerd
BassWörner, Dominik

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