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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 ...
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.
The unknown poet takes the parents' search for the lost Jesus as the starting point to depict the general situation of man who lost Jesus. Movements 1 and 2 lament this loss. Movement 3 is a chorale, stanza 2 of "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne" by Martin Janus (or Jahn), [4] asking Jesus to return. Movement 4 asks the same question in a personal aria.
Bach wrote the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the 19th Sunday after Trinity. [2] [3] [4] It is part of his chorale cantata cycle.The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians – "put on the new man, which after God is created" (Ephesians 4:22–28) – and from the Gospel of Matthew, Healing the paralytic at Capernaum (Matthew 9:1–8).
[4] Movement 4 is in A minor, but the cantus firmus of the trumpet is nonetheless in C major, in "a battle for harmonic supremacy". [4] In the final movement of his Christmas Oratorio Bach would later embed the chorale in doric mode in a concerto in D major. The independent vocal line quotes parts of the chorale melody several times.
In 1724, Bach began exclusively composing chorale cantatas for his second annual cantata cycle, beginning with this cantata and totaling some 40 chorale cantatas by the end of the cycle. Each cantata was based on the main Lutheran hymn for the respective occasion. [ 6 ]