Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten, BWV 59

Whoever loves me will keep my word ( BWV 59 ) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it for the first Pentecost in Leipzig and led them probably on May 28, 1724 to, but is also a first performance already on 16 May 1723 in St. Paul's Church possible.

History and words

Bach wrote the cantata for the first Pentecost in Leipzig and led them up on 28 May 1724 as the individual votes given show. This was possibly the first performance, but comes the score from 1723, so Arnold Schering suggested credible a first performance ever on May 16, 1723 in St. Paul's Church, University Church, before, two weeks before Bach's tenure as choirmaster at the first Sunday began after Trinity. This is supported by the relatively small cast, with only two voices, two trumpets instead of the usual three, and without woodwinds.

The prescribed readings for the feast were Acts 2:1-13 and Jn 14.23-31 LUT LUT from the farewell discourses of Jesus, the promise of the Holy Spirit as the Paraclete, who will teach. The cantata is based on a text by Erdmann Neumeister, which was published in 1714. Bach set to music only four of the seven sets. The first movement is based on the first verse of the Gospel, the stream already in Weimar in 1714 in his cantata for the first Pentecost Erschallet, her songs, erklinget, her strings! was set to a text by Salomon Franck in recitative. In sentence 2, the poet emphasizes the " exceedingly great love of God for the frail human race " (Alfred Dürr ). Theorem 3 is a chorale, the first verse of Martin Luther Whit song Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God, whose melody Bach had used in his Weimar cantata as instrumental cantus firmus in a duet. In an unusual final aria, the poet describes the still greater joy in heaven.

Bach used and extended parts of the cantata for He who loves me will keep my word, BWV 74, for Pentecost 1725th

Scoring and structure

The cantata is occupied by two soloists, soprano and bass, four-part choir chorale, two trumpets, timpani, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

Music

The first set is an extended duet, in which the text is recited five times. In four sections, the votes are done in imitation, where they touch different intervals and key signatures. In the fifth section they sing together in parallel sixths. The instruments are in a short prelude before a motif which is then sung to the words " He who loves me." This motif begins each section.

Clause 2 begins as recitative with string accompaniment, but it ends up being Arioso with continuo on the last line, " Ah, but that, as he wanted him to love everyone ."

In the Bach chorale achieved a particularly full-voiced sound by leading violin II and viola partially independent. On the chorale follows an aria with violin obbligato. Bach researchers have debated whether the unusual end of Bach's intention was or whether he intended to set to music and the fifth set of Neumeister's original text, a chorale. John Eliot Gardiner decided to make music the previous chorale to the third verse of the song after the aria.

Recordings

  • Bach Made in Germany Vol 2 - Cantatas II Kurt Thomas, St. Thomas Boys Choir, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Agnes Giebel, Theo Adam. Eterna, 1959.
  • JS Bach: Cantatas No. 27, 118, 158, 59 Jaap Schröder, Kantorei Amsterdam, Concerto Amsterdam, Rotraud Hansmann, Max van Egmond. Telefunken, 1967.
  • JS Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol 3 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tölz Boys Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir, Ruud van der Meer. Teldec, 1976.
  • The Bach Cantata Vol 35 Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Arleen Augér, Niklaus Tüller. Hänssler, 1977.
  • JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 6, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ruth Ziesak, Klaus Mertens. Antoine Marchand 1997.
  • JS Bach: Whitsun Cantatas / Whitsun Cantatas: No. 172, 59, 74, 34 John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Magdalena Kožená, Peter Harvey. German Grammophon, 2000.
  • " Whoever loves me will keep my word." Cantata BWV 59 Rudolf Lutz, choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation, Joanne Lunn Jan Börner, Walter Siegel, Ekkehard Abele. Velvet introductory workshop and reflection by Verena Kast. Gallus Media, 2013.
Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Thomaskantor Bass (voice type) Major sixth Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Peter Harvey (baritone) Deutsche Grammophon Werner Neumann Christoph Wolff Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3 Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33 Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42 Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68 Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen, BWV 87 Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114 Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121 Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132 Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148 Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162 Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185 Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199 Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a St Mark Passion (Bach)
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