Orchestra SB voice soli, 2 Oboes, Taille (English Horn), Violin solo, Strings, O...(+)
Orchestra SB voice soli,
2 Oboes, Taille (English
Horn), Violin solo,
Strings, Organ - Level 3
SKU: CA.3105807
Cantata for the Sunday
after New Year.
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Edited by
Reinhold Kubik. Arranged
by Paul Horn. This
edition: Paperbound.
Sacred vocal music,
Cantatas, New year. Study
score. Composed
1733/1734. BWV 58. 56
pages. Duration 17
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
31.058/07. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.3105807).
ISBN
9790007043216. Key: C
major. Language:
German/English.
The
cantata O God, what glut
of care and pain BWV 58,
which Bach subtitled
Dialogus and wrote for
the Sunday after New
Year, limits itself
accordingly to the dialog
couple consisting of
soprano and bass; further
soloists or a choir are
not required. In the
framing movements, the
dialog takes on the form
of a chorale arrangement:
the soprano presents a
cantus firmus whose words
are consolingly commented
on by the bass. Both the
expansive chorale
arrangements leave room
for an aria which is
framed by two
recitatives. The cantata
was composed for the
Sunday after New Year
1727, but the received
form is from a subsequent
performance that took
place six or seven years
later. For this
performance, Bach not
only expanded the
instrumentation but also
replaced an entire aria.
Later, he assigned the
cantata to his annual
cycle of chorale
cantatas, probably due to
its high proportion of
chorales; this Sunday was
missing in that annual
cycle as there was no
Sunday between New Year
and Epiphany in 1725.
Score available
separately - see item
CA.3105800.
