Christian Glowatzki
Herbstfarben - Viola da Gamba 1 + 2
Christian Glowatzki
Herbstfarben - Viola da Gamba 1 + 2
- Instrumentation Low Voice, Mixed Choir (SATB), 2 Alto Recorders, 2 Viole da Gamba and Cello
- Composer Christian Glowatzki
- Edition Instrumental Part: Viola da Gamba 1 and Viola da Gamba 2
- Publisher Daniel Kunert
- Order no. DK0222-04-VLA
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Description:
J. S. Bach's cantatas are a treasure trove for the translation of sacred texts into music, for the musical representation of themes of faith and for musical practice around the church year. Many people are moved by the music, but also by the texts of his cantatas and are inspired to write their own thoughts.
Carola Moosbach has written a "Poetic Commentary" for each Bach cantata. These have been collected in a book published by Strube. The composer Professor Matthias Drude (Dresden) was so enthusiastic about the texts that he initiated a composition project in which Moosbach's texts are to be set to music. The prerequisite is that the instrumentation of the corresponding Bach cantata, to which the respective poetic commentary refers, is used and that the end result is not "light music".
With "Herbstfarben" I have set a text to music that Moosbach assigned to cantata BWV 106 "Actus tragicus". Bach's cantata 106, also entitled "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit", is truly exceptional, a work of genius with which the 22-year-old composer left his contemporaries behind. The instrumentation is unique in Bach's oeuvre: 2 recorders, 2 viols and continuo. In terms of content, it is about dying under the law and living under the gospel. Under the Gospel, death has lost its horror. The redeemed man is united with the Lord.
The composition of "Herbsfarben" draws on Bach's instrumentation. In keeping with my idea of combining tonal and atonal elements in one structure, the bass section and choir are rather modal, the viols and the soloist rather whole-tone and the alto recorders above them rather twelve-tone. Of course, the structure is not slavishly followed, but the main thing is the music, its practicality and the power with which it conveys the text content.
This work was premiered together with the accompanying Bach cantata on March 15, 2015 in the Seekapelle in Bad Windsheim by the Evangelische Kantorei Bad Windsheim under the direction of KMD Luise Limpert.
Christian Glowatzki
Published edition.
Carola Moosbach has written a "Poetic Commentary" for each Bach cantata. These have been collected in a book published by Strube. The composer Professor Matthias Drude (Dresden) was so enthusiastic about the texts that he initiated a composition project in which Moosbach's texts are to be set to music. The prerequisite is that the instrumentation of the corresponding Bach cantata, to which the respective poetic commentary refers, is used and that the end result is not "light music".
With "Herbstfarben" I have set a text to music that Moosbach assigned to cantata BWV 106 "Actus tragicus". Bach's cantata 106, also entitled "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit", is truly exceptional, a work of genius with which the 22-year-old composer left his contemporaries behind. The instrumentation is unique in Bach's oeuvre: 2 recorders, 2 viols and continuo. In terms of content, it is about dying under the law and living under the gospel. Under the Gospel, death has lost its horror. The redeemed man is united with the Lord.
The composition of "Herbsfarben" draws on Bach's instrumentation. In keeping with my idea of combining tonal and atonal elements in one structure, the bass section and choir are rather modal, the viols and the soloist rather whole-tone and the alto recorders above them rather twelve-tone. Of course, the structure is not slavishly followed, but the main thing is the music, its practicality and the power with which it conveys the text content.
This work was premiered together with the accompanying Bach cantata on March 15, 2015 in the Seekapelle in Bad Windsheim by the Evangelische Kantorei Bad Windsheim under the direction of KMD Luise Limpert.
Christian Glowatzki
Published edition.