Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164
You, who do you call yourselves from Christ, BWV 164, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, written in Leipzig in 1725 for the 13th Sunday after Trinity, 26 August 1725th
History and Text
Bach wrote the cantata in his third year in Leipzig for the 13th Sunday after Trinity, 26 August 1725th He set to music a cantata text, the Salomon Franck had already published in 1915 in Weimar Evangelical devotional Opffer. Similarly, it was previously in Tue bill! Donnerwort, BWV 168 procedures.
The prescribed readings are from 3.15 to 22 Gal LUT and LUT Lk 10.23 to 37, the parable of the Good Samaritan. The charity is in this cantata as a dominant theme while in the texts of the two previous years, you shall the Lord thy God, and love alone, to you, Lord Jesus Christ, the equivalence of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. The final chorale is the fifth and final stanza of Lord Christ, the son of Elizabeth Creutziger agree Gotts ( 1524).
Instrumentation and structure
As in some other cantatas to texts by Franck cantata is busy chamber music, only the final chorale is in four parts. With four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, music, two flutes, two oboes, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.
Music
The music for four soloists is essentially chamber music. The shape of the three arias diverges from the usual da capo aria from. In the tenor aria singing voice and strings develop the same thematic material in the form ABA 'B'. In the alto aria, accompanied by sighing motifs of the flutes, the first, but modified the second part is not repeated, AB B '. In the duet Bach formed a quartet of voices, unison playing high instruments and continuo. The text is presented in three sections and summarized in a fourth, which takes up the first again. The final chorale is a simple four-part set.
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol 49, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Edith Wiens, Julia Hamari, Lutz -Michael Harder, Walter Held wine, Haenssler 1982
- J. S. Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol 9, Gustav Leonhardt, Tölz Boys Choir, Collegium Vocale Gent, Leonhardt Consort, soloist of the Tölz Boys' Choir, Edith Wiens, Paul Esswood, Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond, Teldec 1987
- Bach Cantatas Vol 6, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Gillian Keith, Nathalie Stutzmann, Christoph Genz, Jonathan Brown, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 18, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Johan Zomer, Bogna Bartosz, Christoph Prégardien, Klaus Mertens, Antoine Marchand 2002
- J. S. Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol 5, Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande, Gerlinde sower, Petra Noskaiová Jan Kobow, Dominik Wörner, Accent 2006
- J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol 40, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Yukari Nonoshita, Robin Blaze, Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooij, TO 2007