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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).
Christ lag in Todes Banden BWV 4 Chorale cantata by J. S. Bach Soprano part from opening chorus with text in Bach's own hand, St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, 1724/1725 Key E minor Occasion First Day of Easter Chorale " Christ lag in Todes Banden " by Martin Luther Performed 24 April 1707 (1707-04-24) Published 1851 (1851) Duration About 20 minutes Movements 8 Vocal SATB Instrumental Cornetto 3 ...
This is a partial list of commercial or professional recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, organized chronologically.. The Bach cantatas fell into obscurity after the composer's death and, in the context of their revival, Christ lag in Todes Banden stands out as being having been recorded early and often; as of 2016, the Bach Cantatas Website lists 77 ...
J. S. Bach - Das Kantatenwerk is a classical music recording project initiated by the record label of Telefunken in 1971 (the first recordings had been made in December 1970) to record all 193 sacred Bach cantatas. The project was entrusted to Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt. Each conductor had his own instrumental ensemble, based in ...
Around the start of the Bach Revival in the 19th century, almost no manuscripts of Bach's music remained in St. Thomas in Leipzig, apart from an incomplete chorale cantata cycle. In Leipzig the chorale cantatas were, after the motets , the second most often performed compositions of Bach between the composer's death and the Bach Revival.
[67] [68] The music of the cantata's closing movement is included in the Dietel collection, a 1730s manuscript containing 149 of Bach's four-part chorales. [69] [70] C. P. E. Bach published the same music of BWV 10 as No. 357 in Part IV of his 1780s collected edition of four-part chorales by his father. [71] [72]
An unknown poet retained the first and last stanzas as the respective choral cantata movements, [4] and paraphrased the other stanzas rather freely: 2 and 3 as movement 2, 4 as movement 3, 5 to 7 as movement 4, 8 as movement 5, and 9 and 10 as movement 6. A year earlier, Bach had composed Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen, BWV 48, for ...
[3] [4] Bach first performed the cantata on 6 December 1716. [3] In Leipzig, Advent was a quiet time (tempus clausum), thus no cantata music was performed in services from Advent II to Advent IV. In order to use the music again, Bach had to dedicate it to a different liturgical event and chose the 26th Sunday after Trinity with a similar theme. [5]