Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65

You from Sheba shall come ( BWV 65) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Emergence and words

Bach wrote the cantata to complete the festive Epiphany ( Epiphany ) his first Christmas in Leipzig. The prescribed readings were Isaiah 60.1-6 LUT and Mt 2:1-12 LUT, the wise men from the East, bring the baby Jesus as gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The unknown librettist may be the same as for the previously listed immediately Christmas cantatas Darzu the Son of God, Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us. He begins with the last verse of the reading, Isaiah Prohetie. Their fulfillment describes as the second sentence of the fourth stanza of the chorale One child geborn to Bethlehem ( Puer natus in Bethlehem after 1543 ): The Kön'ge of Sheba came Represents the first recitative concludes that it is the duty of every Christian, also to bring a gift, namely, his own heart. This is subject to the following aria. The second recitative compares faith with gold, the prayer with incense and patience with myrrh, this is also subject to the following aria. The final chorale is the 10th verse of Paul Gerhardt's chorale I 'm in God's heart and mind, the stream later in the same chorale cantata BWV 92 edited.

Scoring and structure

Bach wrote the cantata as follows:

She is busy festive. The two male soloists, tenor and bass, and the four-voice choir will be accompanied by two horns, two recorders, two oboe da caccia, two violins, viola and basso continuo. Bach sat a pair of horns in 1724 in his Christmas cantata, Blessed art thou, O Jesu Christ, BWV 91, and in Part IV, with thanksgiving, Fall, fall with praise of his Christmas Oratorio.

Music

The opening chorus describes how to collect "all", not only the three Wise Men, and set in motion to worship. Call horn signals and remain present throughout the set. Canonical and imitative developments are the increase in the amount. The middle section is an extended choral fugue, framed by two sections in which the voices are embedded in a repeat of the instrumental introduction. John Eliot Gardiner remarked in connection with his Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, that the instrumentation mimics the music of the Middle East: Recorders in the high altitudes, which is often associated with the music of the Middle East, oboe da caccia ( in tenor ) for the shawm -like reed instruments ( Salamiya and zurna ) ( "the high pitches Often associated with oriental music and the oboes da caccia ( in tenor register) to evoke the shawm -like double -reed instruments ...").

The old hymn, which reports on the coming of the kings of Sheba, is set in four parts. Both recitatives are secco, and the arias have no da capo. The first recitative ends as Arioso to the words: " because I can do nothing Edlers ". This modesty is in the following aria by the low position of the oboe da caccia and the bass voice for expression. The tenor recitative ends with the words: " the greatest wealth abundance me peradventure be in heaven." To show this abundance, the following aria is accompanied by all the instruments, which occur both in concert and together. The final chorale is sung to the tune of what my God wants the g'scheh all times '', the creek often started later, so in one of his chorale cantata and as a set of 25 of his St. Matthew Passion.

Recordings

• Bach Made in Germany Vol 1 - I Cantatas, Günther Ramin, St. Thomas Choir, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Gert Lutze, John Oettel, Eterna 1952
• J. S. Bach: Cantata BWV 65, Marcel Couraud, Stuttgart Bach Choir, Badische Staatskapelle, Theo Altmeyer, Franz Crass, Philips mid-1950s?
• Les Grandes Cantates de J. S. Bach Vol 6, Fritz Werner, Heinrich-Schütz -Chor Heilbronn, Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, Helmut Krebs, Franz Kelch, Erato 1959
• J. S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 46 & BWV 65, Helmut Kahlhöfer, Kantorei Barmen- Gemarke, chamber orchestra Barmen, Georg Jelden, Theo Altmeyer, Jakob Stämpfli, Cantate 1960
• Bach Cantatas Vol 1 - Advent and Christmas, Karl Richter, Munich Bach Choir, Munich Bach Orchestra, Ernst Haefliger, Theo Adam, Archiv Produktion 1967
• J. S. Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol 4, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tölz Boys Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, Kurt Equiluz, Ruud van der Meer, Teldec 1977
• The Bach Cantata Vol 21, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Adalbert Kraus, Wolfgang Schöne, Haenssler 1979
• J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 8, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Jörg Dürmüller, Klaus Mertens, Antoine Marchand 1998
• Bach Cantatas Vol 18: New York, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
• J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol 21, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, James Gilchrist, Peter Kooij UNTIL 2002
• J. S. Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol 4, Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande, Elizabeth Herman, Petra Noskaiová Jan Kobow, Jan van der crabbing, Accent 2006