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Bach's own score - Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (Monteverdi Choir) - zoom in on choral voices etc

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Channel: stigekalder · 2018 · Music

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
SIE WERDEN AUS SABA ALLE KOMMEN (BWV 65) ~
They will all come from Sheba

This video presents the strings, choral voices and basso continuo.
If you prefer to see all parts, then click this link:
https://youtu.be/WNsy-hghSgw

1. movement: Chorus

This church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach was composed in 1724 in Leipzig for Epiphany and had it's first performance on 6 January 1724 as part of his first cantata cycle. Bach wrote the cantata to conclude his first Christmas season as Thomaskantor in Leipzig which had been celebrated with five cantatas (four of them new compositions), the Magnificat and a newly written Sanctus (BWV 238).

Bach festively scored the seven-movement cantata for two vocal soloists (tenor and bass), a four-part choir and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two horns, two recorders, two oboes da caccia, strings and basso continuo. The full orchestra plays for the opening chorus, the last aria and the closing chorale.

This brilliant opening chorus depicts, that "alle" (all), not just the three Magi, gather and move to adore. Horn signals call first and prevail throughout the movement. Canonical and imitation developments illustrate the growing of a crowd. The central section is an extended choral fugue, framed by two sections with the voices embedded in a repeat of the instrumental introduction.

Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, 
Gold und Weihrauch bringen und des Herren Lob verkündigen. 

(Jesaja 60,6)
 
They will all come from Sheba, 
bring gold and incense and proclaim the praise of the Lord.

(Isaiah 60/6)

The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

Live recording from Nikolaikirche, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany (6 January 2000)

The autograph score by Bach can be found here:
https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalSource_source_00001014

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