Ihr Tore zu Zion, BWV 193
Your gates to Zion (sometimes your doors to Zion, BWV 193 ) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote in 1727 in Leipzig for the Council changes and performed it on August 25, 1727 for the first time. Some of the music is lost and has been reconstructed several times. About the same time Bach composed the drama per musica your houses of heaven, her translucent lights ( BWV 193a ). Both plants are common to several sentences.
History and words
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Council changes, the celebration service for the introduction of the newly elected City Council. The text of an unknown poet contains ideas from Psalms, at the beginning of Ps 87.2 LUT, " The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob " in sentence 2 Ps 121.4 LUT, "Behold, he that keepeth Israel doth and will not slumber. " God is praised as the preserver of the "Leipziger Jerusalem."
Some sets, namely 1, 3 and 5 are probably parodies of parts of Drama per Musica your houses of heaven, her translucent lights ( BWV 193a ) that Bach had composed for the feast of Augustus the Strong on August 3, 1727. The text of the secular work in eleven movements was written by Picander and published in Ernst- Schertzhaffte and Satirical Poems, Part II, in Leipzig in 1729. The allegorical figures are Providentia ( Providence ), Fama ( fame), Salus ( salvation ) and pietas ( piety ). The title page bears the dedication " of the Bey / High Nahmens - Feyer / Ihro / Koenigl. Maj. in Pohlen / and Churfl. Highness of Saxony etc / shewed / In a small MUSIC / his allerunterthaenligsten Greeting cards / Christian Friedrich Henrici / Leipzig, August 3, 1727 ".
Alfred Dürr believed that the music in part to earlier, perhaps from the Köthen period, declining. Christoph Wolff assumes that the text of the sacred cantata was written by Picander. A set of this text, a recitative, is lost, as are the voices for tenor and bass, and the continuo part. Reinhold Kubik undertook in 1983 a reconstruction of Helmuth Rilling, Ton Koopman created in 1999 a version for his recording, which adds a tenor soloist, three trumpets and timpani.
The introduction of the City Council was committed in Leipzig regularly in a church service on the Monday that followed the St. Bartholomew's Day (24 August ). Bach led the cantata for the first time on on August 25, 1727.
Scoring and structure
While the music of BWV 193a is lost, the sacred cantata BWV 193 is received partially. The voices of sopranos and altos are available that are missing for tenor and bass. There are instrumental parts for two oboes, two violins and viola, while Basso continuo missing. Given the festive provision is to suggest that Bach had also provided trumpet and timpani.
BWV 193
BWV 193a
Music
The opening chorus is opened by a long refrain which is repeated in full in the middle of the sentence, but not at the end. The Voices obtained indicate that Bach had the vocal part invested primarily homophonic.
The first aria is a Minuet in da capo form. Julian Mincham recalls the interplay of oboe and strings to music by Handel. In the second aria for alto, oboe and continuo the rich Ornamentatierung the oboe for God's blessing illustrated.
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol 67, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Arleen Augér, Julia Hamari, Haenssler 1983
- J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 19, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Caroline Stam, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Antoine Marchand 1999