Bach: Recreation for the Soul - Cantatas, BWV 78, 147 & 150

Magdalena Consort and Peter Harvey

Pubblicato il 12/08/14 su Channel Classics
Artisti principali: Magdalena Consort Peter Harvey
Genere: Classica

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Bach’s ambition to compose a body of ‘well-regulated church music’ – liturgical music for theentire church calendar – produced a wealth of sacred cantatas. Around two hundred havesurvived, and are an eloquent expression of his opinion that ‘true music should be for the honourof God and the recreation of the soul’. That comment – made with respect to the art of realisinga figured-bass (where harmony is indicated by numbers) – seems appropriate to this collection,since the choice of these glorious works was influenced by a consideration of number symbolismand other extra-musical devices. That this most cerebral music touches the emotions so keenlymight seem a paradox, but as a performer, analysing the possible thinking behind Bach’s musicaldecisions brings the composer closer.Behind the unmatched contrapuntal intricacy of Bach’s music lie yet further layers ofcomplexity, his compositional choices being prompted by the demands of symbolism of variouskinds, rhetorical and numerological. Since ancient times, simple proportions had been understoodto lie at the heart of musical sound. Mediaeval musicians, finding perfection in the Trinity, developedsystems of notation accordingly, with the outcome that triple time was considered tempusperfectum; duple time imperfectum. Given that metre is such an evident characteristic of any music,and since triple time is something that – for us bipeds – will always be a dance, this central tenetof Christian doctrine had considerable (and possibly unintended) consequences for the characterof sacred music. Bach, in addition to references to the Trinity (3 and its powers 9 and 27) andChrist’s age (33), also gave significance to numbers derived from his own name (BACH=14,41=JSBACH, where A=1, B=2 etc.). Since composition apparently cost him comparatively littleeffort, ‘recreation’ for Bach’s soul seems to have lain in a delight in such convolutions; but whetheras compositional spur, marks of devotion or for his private satisfaction, we can only speculate.

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Bach: Recreation for the Soul - Cantatas, BWV 78, 147 & 150

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Cantata "Jesu, der du meine Seele", BWV 78 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

No. 1. Chorus, "Jesu, der du meine Seele"