J.S. Bach / Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl ("Trauerode"), BWV 198 (Herreweghe)
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- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 198: Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl "Trauerode" (17 October 1727)
Part I.
1. Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl (Chorus)
2. Dein Sachsen, dein bestürztes Meißen (Recitative: S) 05:58
3. Verstummt, verstummt, ihr holden Saiten! (Aria: S) 07:08
4. Der Glocken bebendes Getön (Recitative: A) 11:00
5. Wie starb die Heldin so vergnügt! (Aria: A) 11:58
6. Ihr Leben ließ die Kunst zu sterben (Recitative: T) 19:21
7. An dir, du Fürbild großer Frauen (Chorus) 20:29
Part II.
8. Der Ewigkeit saphirnes Haus (Aria: T) 22:37
9. Was Wunder ists? Du bist es wert (Recitative: B) 26:43
10. Doch, Königin! du stirbest nicht (Chorus) 29:11
Soloists:
Soprano: Ingrid Schmithüsen
Alto: Charles Brett
Tenor: Howard Crook
Bass: Peter Kooy
Performed by La Chapelle Royale under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe. Recorded by Harmonia Mundi France in 1988.
"The Trauerode BWV 198 occupies a special place among Bach's secular cantatas. It is at once his only surviving secular music of mourning and the only extant cantata that he contributed to an official university ceremony. The work's genesis is unusually well documented. The Electress of Saxony Christiane Eberhardine had died suddenly on 5 September 1727 at the age of fifty-six. She was highly respected in Saxony for resisting the pressure of the court to embrace the Roman Catholic faith which her husband had adopted in 1697 in order to become eligible as king of Poland. Since that time she had lived in retirement in the castle of Pretzsch on the Elbe. The ceremony planned by Leipzig University for 17 October was thus a political event of the first order. It would appear that the president of the Leipzig Deutsche Gesellschaft, Johann Christoph Gottsched, was the prime mover behind the event; but he clearly did not want to adopt too prominent a position with respect to the Saxon court, and therefore entrusted an aristocratic student from his circle, Hans Carl von Kirchbach, with the preparations for the ceremony, while he himself contributed the text for a large-scale mourning ode.
"Kirchbach commissioned a setting of Gottsched's poem from Bach, as the highest-ranking musician in the city, thereby passing over the figure who by rights should have received it, the university's music director Johann Gottlieb Görner. Once the project became known, Görner immediately lodged a protest with the university authorities, demanding that the commission be withdrawn from Bach and given to him instead. Although he had the university on his side, Görner was finally defeated by the obstinacy of Kirchbach - who threatened to call the whole event off -- and had to be content with a compensatory payment. In the meantime, Bach had already pressed ahead with his setting of Gottsched's ode. The end of the autograph score is dated 15 October, which means that the ten-movement work was finished just two days before the performance. The (now lost) parts must therefore have been copied out in the greatest of haste.
"The ceremony began at nine o'clock in the morning with a solemn procession of the town council and university professors from the Nikolaikirche to the Paulinerkirche, where Kirchbach pronounced his eulogy in memory of the Electress, framed by Bach's music. Since the ceremony took place during the Leipzig Michaelmas Fair, it was attended, as a contemporary account tells us, by 'many personalities, princes, and other persons of high rank, Saxon and foreign ministers, chevaliers from the court and elsewhere, along with numerous ladies'. After the guests had taken their seats in the church, the university beadles distributed the printed text of the music, the first part of which commenced immediately. The Leipzig chronicler Ernst Christoph Sicul reports that Bach had composed his music 'in the Italian style, with Clave di Cembalo, which Mr. Bach himself played, organ, viola da gamba, lutes, violins, recorders, transverse flutes, &c.'.
"Bach was well aware of the significance of this solemn occasion, for he provided it with music of matchless splendor. In order to realize his musical conception of a grandiose funeral cantata after the Italian model, he began by modifying the regular organization of Gottsched's poem--the stanzas were split up and regrouped to enable them to be set as choruses, recitatives, and arias. The scoring of the work, too, is exceptionally delicate. The standard orchestra of transverse flutes, oboes d'amore and strings was expanded to include two violas da gamba and two lutes, which give the work its distinctive sound, at once somber and silvery." - Peter Wollny - เพลง
In the desert of the intellect, or wasteland of the soul, that TH-cam often resembles, I love coming to hear a fantastic recording of Bach. This is balm for the lost and injured, and not only because Bach gifted civilization with many of its highest achievements. I come also to read the grateful, graceful, intelligent appreciations of Bach by people who share my love of truth and beauty. Thank you, all.
The first 50 seconds before the choir sets in ... BACH is the ultimate definition of genius.
Wunderbar! Einmalig! Was für ein Balsam für die vom unerträglichen Lärm dieser Welt gepeinigte Seele!
Manchmal schweigt man besser.
This cantata is a thing of beauty beyond beauty.
We are so very fortunate to have lived during a period that allowed us to hear it.
So many have not been as fortunate.
RIGHT!
Thank you so much! This is very very far beyond beauty, indeed!
Probably the best version of the TrauerOde... Perfect tempi and articulation, as usual with Herreweghe.
Bach is ...Bach!!!
absolutely unattainable!!!!! He is THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely, Bach IS The Music
J.S. Bach's cantatas are timeless music of incredible beauty, jewels at the heart of the highest musical aesthetics. And BWV 198 is certainly one of the most amazing of all, a journey on its own, especially the initial chorus, displaying one of the finest counterpoint ever written leading to the most refined, intricate harmonies. Nothing but an absolute marvel. Have listened to the introductory chorus hundreds of time, and nothing will ever beat the rapture it provokes when listened on an high-en audiophile system. Push volume a little... chills guaranteed!
Bach is a genius! ... his compositions translate the most sublime and intriguing into the human soul.
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Imagine sitting in the church as the flutes and violins start and Bach himself plays cembalo! We are lucky to hear this now but there have been people even luckier than us.
Bach es el padre de la música, sus obras sublimes llegan al alma, saludos desde Chile🎼🎶
you forgot handel
Trauer-Ode para conmemorar el fallecimiento de la reina Christiane Eberhardine, electora de Sajonia el 17 de Octubre de 1727. Cantata profundamente conmovedora, muy criticada por los mediocres contemporáneos Mattheson y Scheibe. Dirigida magistralmente por Philippe Herreweghe. Muchas gracias por compartir esta joya.
¡Gracias por los datos!
HATS OFF Ladies and Gentleman to Mr Howard Crook for that mind-blowing performance of der Ewigkeit saphirnes Haus Aria.
What a beautiful, deep tone his voice has!
Kein Bach, sondern ein Meer!
I love Bach, too, perhaps more than I love any other composer. I still can't imagine why one would feel it necessary to rate only one composer worth listening to. Why narrow possibilities this way?
I listened to this wonder more than twenty years ago. Had it on a tape that I lost or misplaced, but I have always remembered this cantata (I am tempted to say "the music" and it would be unfair). Great, plain out-of-this-world music.
nareszcie Cie odnalazłem - moja ukochana kantata ...
An exquisite jewel of polyphonic mastery
The opening piece is beyond me. What a mind. This is why I have no time for any other composer. All of the ones that came later seem frivolous in comparison.
Yeah, I agree JS Bach has that effect. All other composers come second, automatically, no matter how gifted or brilliant. The one true desert island composer whose works can be listened to and enjoyed with rapturous delight forever, without ever getting old. And you'll always discover something new with each listen.
I totally agree, and as a music student its awesome to just space out and listen to Bach's music, each time you listen you find something that you didn't notice before, or feel new emotions, or when you hear a certain chord and listen to how all the different notes sync up to create something beautiful and almost other worldly sounding is amazing. It's a shame that so many of my peers and others cant see the art in Bach and other composers.
I agree. I've crafted my own musical composition efforts after his own supreme style. Bach, more than any other composer before or after, was able to channel the sounds of another realm, almost as though taking dictation from angels. Or hearing the music from heaven and transcribing from the sound halls of eternity to ink and paper so we humans can experience a glimpse of the glory. He is undoubtedly the greatest musical mind in all of history. There are other great composers, like Mozart and Handel, but I find the element of "eternity" and the fathomless depths of profundity and beauty so effortlessly found in Bach to be lacking in even their greatest works. Contrast this to the "minor" pieces of JSB (like the 2 and 3 part inventions and sinfonias), where even in those little didactic keyboard pieces for beginners, we find that peculiar depth in which one always hear new things, new colors, new textures, provoking new emotions, etc.
I would not call composers like Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and many others frivolous, but I share your enthusiasm for Bach.
I would. I do. Don't know how else to describe them. I don't think that of Stravinsky. But the classical ones, that immediately followed Bach, I find frivolous. I cannot listen to them nowadays. I could in the past. But they make me cringe now.
Oops, forgot to Thank You for having posted this piece, man. Wordless now.
Masterpiece 😢
Thanks for sharing this beautiful music !!!
c'est sublime... un peu tragique .. très magnifique
Logique, c'est une trauerode.
Bach, then everybody else
+Jeffery Wyss absolument...
What nonsense.
Everybody, what?
There are other apex composer namely Handel and Beethoven.
Bach> all
De tre tilslørede skønjomfruer lytter intens til den skønne musik, ligesom jeg gør.....
Herzlichen Dank.
Thank you for sharing
Great to find this. Perfect supplement to the section in Gardiner's "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven". And the English translation at Emmanuel Music. And watching the score via imslp. A real feast for the ears and the eyes.
+Leon Green Oh yes! Absolutely!! Just finished the book by Gardiner. This is something else, I just can not even try to define it.
+Ojosdeátomo Thanks! I regret to say that book remains uncompleted in my library. I read too many at one time. But I am working my way through the Orgelbüchlein with my organ coach's 15-step method. And thanks for getting me to listen to this again.
YES!
thank you for this beautifull list
“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.” (Emil Cioran)
Of course! But may God grant you a sense of humour!
I really love this *-*
mooi hoor! het blijft heel mooi !
maravilloso
Muzyka J.S.Bacha jest rozmową z Bogiem
מעולה!!!
CANTATAS ***
SUBLIMISSIME!!!
The sculpture is by Raffaele Monti, Vestal Virgin veiled
❤
At 22'35" - SUCH PROFOUND BEAUTY -something only the women depicted in this video could match. Despite as one comments the text is secular, Bach's pen seldom but could endure anything less than great it would appear. Masaaki Suzuki's consort just completed the cantata cycle and I was longing for his version of this cantata, alas, the secular cantatas were not recorded as part of the set!
+Wolfgang1782 One can define the cantata as secular for description sake, but Bach himself - a man of deep Christian faith still brings out a divine thread here and there even in this "secular" work - the best example is from the 9th recicative "Arioso" translated into the English - "...for your brow is now transfigured.
Now you wear, before the throne of the Lamb,
instead of the vanity of purple,
the pearly purity of innocence's shift
and scorn your abandoned crown...."
Both illusions of an afterlife (brow transfigured = resurrection) and the lamb is obviously Jesus Christ - and the throne - well no further explanation required.
The counterpoint between the flute, oboe and the strings puts me in a trance.
So beautiful... :)
Who is playing and singing this? (there's the director name, but not the names of the other artists)
The sculpture you show -- where is that from?
Learn from Bach and perhaps we can create as great - music must not stand still
The sculpture, where is it from ?
Rafael Monti, "Sisters of Mercy"
Bach es Dios y Koopman su representante en la tierra.
It is not Koopman , it is Herreweghe .
any information about the statues ?
If you read about de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Eberhardine_von_Brandenburg-Bayreuth and you are somehow concerned about today re-catholicization of some protestants, you can surely understand why Bach got so much inspiration for this cantata.
Who is here because of the movie Diana? The one with Noami Watts, that scene in Ritz Paris.
Похоже местами на его Мессу h-moll.
bach was fine
most composers write good to bad to brilliant music, Bach created an Universe. Different league....
BACH and PURCELL are Mt Everest and K2 of music ... never mind who is which
you forgot Händel.
@@oskyperez4989
of course not ❤ GFH was not forgotten
besides, to continue this little allegory oh mine, there are 14 (fourteen) 8000.meter+ mountains so I just couldn't mention them all . . .
r e s p e c t
QUE LE VAYA BIEN, AMIGO
If God exists, he must be Bach ;)
Te olvidaste de Händel.
22:40
Bach doesn't have to be the last, but one suggestion: scrap atonality.
THE CLUE - ABANDON THE SONATA - RETURN TO THE DANCE?
Compared to this Mozart´s Masonic Funeral Music is just a joke.
Excellent music.
I hate Sanex.
Thank you. That's the first time I've smiled today!
Mozart´s Requiem sounds like a work from a 3 year old compared to this.
Mmm, no. Bach is my favorite composer, he is a master for sure. But you cannot compare the two composers and I think that Mozart Requiem is absolutely amazing, certainly not the work of a lesser composer.