FLUTEBach, Johann Sebastian
Aria: "Die Welt mit allen Königreichen" for Flute & Harp
Bach, Johann Sebastian - Aria: "Die Welt mit allen Königreichen" for Flute & Harp
BWV 59 No 4
Flute and Harp
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750)
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Flute and Harp

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Baroque

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MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - )
Copyright :Public Domain
Added by magataganm, 21 Dec 2016

Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten (Whoever loves me will keep my word), BWV 59, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed the cantata for Pentecost and probably first performed it in Leipzig on 28 May 1724, but an earlier performance on 16 May 1723 at the Paulinerkirche, the University Church of Leipzig, is possible.

Bach wrote the cantata for Pentecost Sunday. The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Acts of the Apostles, the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1–13), and from the Gospel of John, Jesus announcing in his Farewell discourse the Spirit who will teach (John 14:23–31). The cantata is based on a text of Erdmann Neumeister, published in 1714. Bach composed only four movements of the seven of the poetry. The cantata begins with the first verse of the gospel, which Bach had set already as a recitative for bass in his cantata for Pentecost Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172, composed in Weimar in 1714 on a text of Salomon Franck. In movement 2 the poet praises the great love of God. Movement 3 is the first stanza of Martin Luther's hymn for Pentecost, "Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott", asking for the coming of the Holy Spirit. In an unusual closing aria the poet deals with the expected greater bliss in heaven.

Bach performed the cantata on 28 May 1724, which was probably the first performance. The score dates from 1723, but the parts were written in 1724. Pentecost of 1723 occurred before Bach officially started his tenure as Thomaskantor in Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity. The possibility of a performance already on 16 May 1723, perhaps in a service of the university, as Arnold Schering suggested, has been discussed. Bach used and expanded parts of the cantata in Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, BWV 74, for Pentecost of 1725.

The first movement is an extended duet, which repeats the text five times. In four sections, the voices imitate each other, using different intervals and various keys; in the final section they sing united in parallels of sixths. The instruments begin with a short prelude, which introduces a motif later sung on the words "Wer mich liebet" with a short melisma on mich (me). This motif begins every section.

Movement 2 begins as a recitative with string accompaniment, but ends as an arioso with continuo on the final lines Ach, daß doch, wie er wollte ihn auch ein jeder lieben sollte (Ah, that only, as he wishes, everyone might also love him).

In the chorale, two violins play partly independent parts, achieving a full sound. The chorale is followed by an aria with an obbligato violin. Scholars have discussed if this unusual ending of the cantata was Bach's intention or if he had planned to conclude the work with Neumeister's fifth movement, another chorale. John Eliot Gardiner chose to repeat the chorale, performing its third stanza.

Although originally scored for two soloists, soprano and bass, a four-part choir only in the chorale, two trumpets, timpani, two violins, viola and basso continuo, I created this arrangement for Flute & Concert (Pedal) Harp.
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