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Bach's own score - Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (Sonata)

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Channel: stigekalder · 2018 · Music

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
HIMMELSKÖNIG, SEI WILLKOMMEN (BWV 182)

1. movement: Sonata

This cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach was composed in Weimar for Palm Sunday and first performed in the chapel of the castle of Weimar on 25 March 1714, which was also the feast of the Annunciation that year. The cantata is intimately scored to match the church building.

The poetry was written by the court poet Salomon Franck, although the work is not found in his printed editions. Bach's biographer Philipp Spitta concluded this from stylistic comparison and observing a lack of recitatives between arias. The poetry derives from the entry into Jerusalem a similar entry into the heart of the believer, who should prepare himself and will be given heavenly joy in return.

The instrumental Sonata in the rhythm of a French Overture depicts the arrival of the King. The recorder and a solo violin are accompanied by pizzicato in the divided violas and the continuo. In his cantata "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" (BWV 61) for Advent that same year on the same reading, Bach went further and set a chorus in the form of such an overture. My video with this chorus can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYzwCjUdM2A

This is my video with the first chorus of "Himmelskönig, sei willkommen", which follows the Sonata:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePcqLq8NIjg

The manuscript written by Bach himself can be found here:
https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalSource_source_00000970

The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (1998)
Conducted by Anders Öhrwall

Bach's own score - Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (Sonata)

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