Masaaki Suzuki / Bach –Secular Cantatas, Vol. 6

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發行年份： 2016

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Although Bach's sacred cantatas span a huge expressive range and display a striking stylistic
diversity, they were all composed for performance during a church service. In the case of the secular
cantatas, on the other hand, their respective purpose is as varied as their subject matter and
emotional content. They were usually commissions intended for occasions such as weddings,
funerals and birthdays. As such they were sometimes performed in churches, and some of them
have religious texts, but as the works gathered here exemplify, they were not related to the particular
theme of the church service on a certain day. The cantata BWV 198, often called the Trauerode
(funeral ode) was performed at an imposing ceremony in Leipzig's Paulinerkirche in 1727, held in
order to mark the passing of Christiane Eberhardine, wife of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony
and King of Poland. The work adopts a suitably elevated style, but the text is resolutely secular,
containing neither Bible quotations nor hymns. (A few years later, much of the music from the
cantata did find its way into a thoroughly sacred context, however, as Bach reused it in his now lost
St Mark Passion.) Compared to BWV 198, the circumstances surrounding Tilge, Höchster, meine
Sünden, BWV 1083, are far more uncertain: why Bach at a late stage in his life (around 1746)
decided to make an arrangement of Pergolesi's famous Stabat mater isn't known. In the case of the
Pergolesi arrangement, the text is religious – a German paraphrase of the penitential Psalm 51
replaces the medieval sequence about Mary mourning Christ at the cross – but the work doesn't
seem to have had any liturgical purpose. Bach's arrangement of this sequence of duets and arias for
soprano and alto offers an intriguing opportunity to hear the ‘new music’ of the 1730’s, filtered
through the sensibility of the great master of a style which was already becoming a thing of the past.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl, BWV 198 (Trauerode)
Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde, aria, BWV 53 [Georg Melchior Hoffmann (?)]
Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden (Psalm 51), BWV 1083, after the ‘Stabat mater’ by G.B. Pergolesi

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