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Cantata BWV 56, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen - Johann Sebastian Bach 'Karl Richter'
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Composition Year: 1726 in Leipzig
First Performance: 1726-10-27 in Leipzig
Dedication: 19th Sunday after Trinity
Recorded: München, Herkulessaal, 7/1969
Recording quality: High
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Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Bass • Manfred Clement (Oboe) Continuo • Walter Nothas (Violoncello) • Franz Ortner (Double-bass) • Karl Robingen (Bassoon)
Münchener Bach-Chor • Münchener Bach-Orchester • Karl Richter - Dirigent
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00:01 1. Aria (bass): Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen
08:40 2. Recitative (bass): Mein Wandel auf der Welt
10:51 3. Aria (bass): Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch
17:33 4. Recitative and Arioso (bass): Ich stehe fertig und bereit
19:34 5. Chorale: Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder
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Work:
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (lit. '"I will gladly carry the cross-staff"'), BWV 56, is a church cantata which Johann Sebastian Bach composed for the 19th Sunday after Trinity. It was first performed in Leipzig on 27 October 1726, and is part of Bach's third cantata cycle. The composition is a solo cantata (German: Solokantate) because it requires only a single vocal soloist, in this case a bass. Bach rarely used the word cantata to refer to a composition, and only for solo cantatas: the autograph score of BWV 56 is one of a few cases where he did.
The text, by Christoph Birkmann, describes the Christian life as a voluntary journey "carrying the cross" as a follower of Jesus. The text refers indirectly to the prescribed Gospel reading, which says that Jesus traveled by boat. The poet compares life to a sea voyage, and at the end yearns for death as the ultimate destination. This final desire for death is reinforced by the closing chorale: the stanza "Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder" ("Come, o death, you brother of sleep") from Johann Franck's 1653 hymn "Du, o schönes Weltgebäude", which also uses the imagery of a sea voyage.
Bach composed the cantata in his fourth year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He structured it in five movements, alternating arias and recitatives for a bass soloist, and closing with a four-part chorale. He scored the work for a Baroque instrumental ensemble of three woodwind instruments (two oboes and taille), three string instruments (two violins and a viola) and continuo. An obbligato cello features in the first recitative and an obbligato oboe in the second aria, resulting in different timbres in the four movements for the same voice part.
The autograph score and the performance parts are held by the Berlin State Library. The cantata was published in 1863 in volume 12 of the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA), edited by Wilhelm Rust. The Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA) published the score in 1990, edited by Matthias Wendt. A critical edition was published by Carus-Verlag in 1999 as part of Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben.
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ATTRIBUTION
Music contained in this video is licensed by Archiv Produktion, 1969.
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