Cantata BWV 65, Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen - Johann Sebastian Bach 'Karl Richter'

Composition Year: 1724 in Leipzig
First Performance: 1724-01-06 in Leipzig
Dedication: Epiphany
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Performers: Ernst Haefliger - Tenor • Theo Adam - Basso • Münchener Bach-Chor • Münchener Bach-Orchester • Karl Richter - Dirigent
Recorded: München Herkulesssaal, 2/1967
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00:01 1. Chorus: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (C major)
03:34 2.Chorus: Die Kön'ge aus Saba kamen dar (A minor)
04:16 3.Recitativo (bass): Was dort Jesaias vorhergesehn (F major-G major)
06:29 4.Aria (bass): Gold aus Ophir ist zu schlecht (E minor)
09:07 5.Recitativo (tenor): Verschmähe nicht (A minor-E minor)
10:38 6.Aria (tenor): Nimm mich dir zu eigen hin (C major)
13:59 7.Chorale: Ei nun, mein Gott, so fall ich dir (A minor)
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Work:
Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (They will all come forth out of Sheba), BWV 65, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in 1724 in Leipzig for Epiphany and first performed it on 6 January 1724 as part of his first cantata cycle.
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Bach wrote the cantata to conclude his first Christmas season as Thomaskantor in Leipzig which had been celebrated with five cantatas, four of them new compositions, the Magnificat and a new Sanctus. The text by an anonymous author, who possibly supplied texts of two of the Christmas cantatas as well, combines the prescribed readings for the feast day, the prophecy from the Book of Isaiah and the gospel of Matthew about the Wise Men from the East. The librettist begins with a quotation from the prophecy, comments it by a stanza of the early anonymous Christmas carol "Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem", says in a sequence of recitatives and arias that the prophecy was fulfilled in Bethlehem, concluding that the Christian should bring his heart as a gift. The cantata ends with a chorale, stanza 10 of Paul Gerhardt's hymn "Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn".
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Bach festively scored the seven-movement cantata, for two vocal soloists (tenor and bass), a four-part choir and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two horns, two recorders, two oboes da caccia, strings and basso continuo. All recitatives are secco, but the full orchestra plays for the opening chorus, the last aria and the closing chorale.
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Bach Cantatas Website: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/index.htm
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