This cd is the culmination of the first five years of amici voices as we worked our way through the large scale sacred works of js bach and explored many of his cantatas. The cantata himmelskonig, sei willkommen king of heaven, thou art welcome bwv 182, written for. Bach may only have been in his early twenties when he wrote it, but cantata no 106 the actus tragicus is a profound contemplation of things final. Sonata licensed to youtube by wmg on behalf of teldec classics international. There were no precedents, no earlier attempts to perform all bach s surviving church cantatas on the. Max van egmond bass vocals, paul esswood countertenor vocals, robert holl bass vocals, philippe herreweghe director, kurt equiluz tenor vocals, jan patrick ofarrell boy soprano, alexander raymann boy soprano, gerhard schmidtgaden director, heinz hennig director, leonhardt. Church cantatas for even more detail click on the following pdf s. Chapter 46 bwv 182 the cantatas of johan sebastian bach. Both had their first performances in leipzig, and all of the earlier cantatas were eventually performed there as well. Bach foundation rudolf lutz conductor soloists claude eichenberger alto bernhard berchtold. On 23rd november, emma will be a guest soloist in bach s cantata 182 and mozarts requiem in the mco, hilversum, the netherlands. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director ryan turner. Im putting it on cpdl in both pdf and sibelius versions so you can edit it if you like clifton hughes november 2019 j s bach.
Himmelskonig, sei willkommen, bwv 182 bach, johann. See the johann sebastian bach s works list for more details. The cantata, bwv 182 king of heaven, be thou welcome, was composed for the feast of the annunciation or palm sunday, which in 1714 fell on march 25. He composed it in weimar for palm sunday, and first performed it on 25 march 1714, which was also the feast of the annunciation that year. Among the additional duties that came with the new post was the obligation to provide a church cantata each month. Bach s promotion to concertmaster in 1714 dated from march 2nd. The disc offers works for the twentysixth sunday after. The more than 100 vocalists displayed clean tone, excellent pitch and blend, and kept good tempo even in the most stressful numbersoutstanding, energetic and crisp. The bach choir of bethlehem, founded in the 19th century, has gained international recognition through its annual bach festival, tours and recordings. When we embarked on the bach cantata pilgrimage in weimar on christmas day 1999 we had no real sense of how the project would turn out. From the protestant church trogen in switzerland choir and orchestra of the j. Bwv 182 himmelskonig, sei willkommen scrolling youtube. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j. We open our program with a sinfonia, termed concerto by bach, from cantata 152, a twomovement overture, the adagio being.
He was required to produce one cantata each month, and the fourth sunday following his new appointment fell on march 25th, the double feast day of palm sunday and annunciation. She will join soloists soprano henriette feith, tenor arco mandemake, and bass donald bentvelsen, under conductor nico philipp hovius with the. Himmelskonig, sei willkommen king of heaven, welcome, bwv 182, is a church cantata by johann sebastian bach. The split viola parts in the opening sinfonia alert the listener to the fact that this is an early work predating the first leipzig cycle. Erste leipziger fassung 1724 first leipzig version. Although scored for recorder, a single violin and two violas with a cello sometimes independent of the basso continuo with satb, the work has a later feel to it. The fortyfifth cantata of the cycle for the annunciation of the blessed virgin. Public domain himmelskonig, sei willkommen king of heaven. Cantatas and sacred music bwv 1249 plus the 371 4part chorales bwv 253438, plus 3 wedding chorales bwv 250252, arie and lieder not fugal pieces, bwv 439524, orchestral music bwv 1041106971. Bachcantatas site, with links to libretto and translations. One or two more surviving cantatas may have been composed while bach was at his previous post in arnstadt, for example. First performed 25 march 1714, when palm sunday and annunciation coincided. The opening sonata is played with enough space between the phrases by both the flute and the violin to accommodate the reverberant space of a church, even one larger than the one.
Bach may only have been in his early twenties when he wrote it, but cantata. Cantatas, bwv 182 184 helmuth rilling on allmusic 1982. In march 1714, bach, who had been organist at the ducal chapel in weimar since 1708, was promoted to the post of concertmaster. It was composed especially for palm sunday and first performed on 25th march 1714 in the schlosskirche at weimar. Himmelskonig, sei willkommen, bwv 182 bach, johann sebastian. Himmelskonig, sei willkommen, bwv 182 bach, johann sebastian movementssections movtssecs. Bach cantatas 106 and 182, amici voices and amici baroque. Now that you have this pdf score, members artist are waiting for a feedback from you in. The following cantata, 182, also dates from weimar, being composed a year earlier in 1714.
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