Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe (There is no soundness in my body), BWV 25, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the 14th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 29 August 1723. Bach creates the opening chorus as a chorale fantasia on a complete instrumental quotation of a chorale tune.The melody is known as Herzlich tut mich verlangen nach meinem selgen End. Bach combines an instrumental introduction with the chorale tune in long notes in the continuo with figuration of strings and oboes, a choral double fugue, and the presentation of the choral by a choir of trombones with the cornetto as the soprano instrument, reinforced by three recorders which play an octave higher. The following three movements are all only accompanied by the continuo. A new perspective is opened in movement 5 in dance music for a concerto of strings and oboes, echoed by the recorders. The music relates to the text im höhern Chor werde mit den Engeln singen (in the exalted choir I shall sing with the angels). The closing chorale is set for four parts. https://youtube/watch?v=njVEgOVAUMY&list=RDnjVEgOVAUMY#t=243
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:19:34 +0000
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