J S Bach - Cantatas Vol.41: Solo Cantatas
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BISSACD1691
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st December 2008
Contents
Works
Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'
Cantata BWV84 'Ich bin vergnugt mit meinem Glucke'
Cantata BWV158 'Der Friede sei mit dir'
Artists
Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord)Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan
Conductor
Masaaki SuzukiWorks
Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'
Cantata BWV84 'Ich bin vergnugt mit meinem Glucke'
Cantata BWV158 'Der Friede sei mit dir'
Artists
Masaaki Suzuki (harpsichord)Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan
Conductor
Masaaki SuzukiAbout
Of the two cantatas for soprano, Ich habe genung (BWV82) is among the best-known of all of Bach’s cantatas, and was evidently held in high regard from an early stage. It was originally set for bass (and appears as such on Volume 38), and source materials show that Bach performed it at least four times. Bach’s wife Anna Magdalena must also have been especially fond of it: a partial arrangement for soprano and harpsichord was included in her second Klavierbüchlein.
Ich bin vergnügt (BWV84) is a slighter work in which the oboe plays an important soloistic part. Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, the weightier of the bass cantatas, is a meditation on the cross of Jesus, but also on the suffering and need that mankind must bear. The texts, by an unknown librettist, inspired Bach to produce music of sublime earnestness, great expressive depth and full of rich, immediate imagery.
Whereas these three cantatas were all composed during the winter of 1726-27, Der Friede sei mit dir has a less certain place in the chronology. It is in fact probable that it was assembled from movements from various sources, perhaps by an arranger rather than by Bach himself.
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