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Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity. [4] This Sunday occurs only when Easter is early. [5] The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, be prepared for the day of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:1–11), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1–13).
The eldest known cantata by Bach, an early version of Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, presumably written in 1707, was a chorale cantata. The last chorale cantata he wrote in his second year in Leipzig was Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , BWV 1 , first performed on Palm Sunday , 25 March 1725.
Bach's fourth (Leipzig) cantata cycle, known as the Picander cycle, consists of cantatas performed for the first time from 24 June 1728 (St. John's Day) to 10 July 1729 (fourth Sunday after Trinity), or later in 1729, to a libretto from the printed cycle of 70 cantata texts for 1728–29 by Picander. Later additions to this cycle and Picander ...
The Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA, Bach Gesellschaft edition) kept the chorale settings that were part of a larger vocal work (cantata, motet, Passion or oratorio) together with these larger vocal works and added the Three Wedding Chorales to its 13th volume containing wedding cantatas. The remaining separate four-part chorales, purged from ...
Christ lag in Todes Banden (also spelled Todesbanden; [a] "Christ lay in death's bonds" [2] or "Christ lay in the snares of death"), [3] BWV 4, is a cantata for Easter by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his earliest church cantatas. It is agreed to be an early work partly for stylistic reasons and partly because there is evidence ...
The work's outer movements are choral and use the hymn tune, while the inner four movements are composed for soloists, unconnected to the hymn tune. The cantata is scored for four vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of cornett and trombones to reinforce the voices, oboe d'amore, strings, and basso continuo.
J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 201, Moscow Conservatoire Chamber Orchestra (1987) J.S. Bach: Cantate Profanes, RIAS-Kammerchor / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi, 1995) J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Musica Antiqua Köln / Reinhard Goebel (Archiv, 1997)
The music of movements 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 10 is lost, and only instrumental parts of the other movements are extant. Bach added the chorales for the 1723 dedication service. Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest shows musical similarities also to Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn , BWV 119 , written for the inauguration of the Leipzig town council a few ...
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