Bach, Johann Sebastian - Aria: "Hebt euer Haupt empor" for Horn & Strings BWV 70 No 8 Cor, Quatuor à cordes |
Compositeur : | Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Cor, Quatuor à cordes | ||||
Genre : | Baroque | ||||
Arrangeur : Editeur : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Droit d'auteur : | Public Domain | ||||
Ajoutée par magataganm, 01 Jui 2015 Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch!) is the title of two church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed a first version, BWV 70a, in Weimar for the second Sunday in Advent of 1716 and expanded it in 1723 in Leipzig to BWV 70, a cantata in two parts for the 26th Sunday after Trinity. On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. Bach originally wrote this cantata in his last year there, for the Second Sunday of Advent. In Leipzig, Advent was a quiet time (tempus clausum), thus no cantata music was performed in services from Advent II to Advent IV. In order to use the music again, Bach had to dedicate it to a different liturgical event and chose the 26th Sunday after Trinity with a similar theme. The prescribed readings for this Sunday were from the The Second Epistle of Peter, "look for new heavens and a new earth" (2 Peter 3:3–13), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the Second Coming of Christ, also called Second Advent (Matthew 25:31–46). An unknown poet kept the existing movements and added recitatives and a chorale to end part 1 of the new cantata, the final verse of "Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele" by Christoph Demantius. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachet!_betet!_betet!_wa chet!_BWV_70). The instrumentation of the Weimar cantata is lost. The cantata in two parts of 7 and 4 movements was originally scored in Leipzig for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass soloists, a four-part choir, trumpet, oboe, bassoon, two violins, two violas, and basso continuo. Although originally scored for tenor soloist, oboe, two violins, viola, and basso continuo, I created this arrangement of the 3rd Aria "Hebt euer Haupt empor" (Lift up your heads) for French Horn & Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Partition centrale : | Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (8 partitions) | |
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