FULL BACH CANTATAS BWV 66, 86, 134 Moscow 2024 COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: BACH CANTATAS BWV 66, 86, 134
- Composer: Bach Johann Sebastian
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CATHEDRAL CATHEDRAL OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, Moscow, Russia
- Recorded: May 26, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Vladimir Krasov, Mikhail Nor
- Conductor: OLEG ROMANENKO
- Orchestra: COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
Information about the Recording
- Published by: COLLEGIUM MUSICUM
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, rusubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The solemn Easter cantata “Rejoice, O Hearts” sounded on the second day of Easter, April 10, 1724. It is based on a congratulatory cantata written for the birthday of his employer, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen. It had a dialogical form, which Bach preserved by playing the dialogue between Hope and Fear.
In a similar way, the cantata “Behold the Soul of the Risen Jesus Knows” appeared, performed on the third day of Easter, April 11, 1724. It is based on a score created for New Year’s Day – January 1, 1719. The result is an unusual church cantata for two soloists, which mentions the events of the Gospel only in the most general terms, and which ends not with the traditional chorale, but with a magnificent final chorus.
The cantata “Truly, truly, I say to you” is intended for the 5th Sunday after Easter and was first performed on May 14, 1724. It opens with a quotation from the Gospel, a promise from Jesus from his farewell conversation: “Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you.” The doubts that inevitably overtake a person in the earthly world are poetically embodied by the image of a rose with thorns – it is sung about in an aria with a virtuoso violin solo. But two chorales speak of firm faith in the words of Christ.
In a programme:
Cantata BWV 134 Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß (“Behold, the soul of the risen Jesus knows”)
Cantata BWV 66 Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (“Rejoice, hearts”)
Cantata BWV 86 Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch (“Truly, truly I’m telling you”)