O blessed rest, O welcome, soul's delight BWV 170
Cantata for the 6th Sunday after Trinity
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Johann Sebastian Bach
O blessed rest, O welcome, soul's delight BWV 170
Cantata for the 6th Sunday after Trinity
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Johann Sebastian Bach
O blessed rest, O welcome, soul's delight BWV 170

Cantata for the 6th Sunday after Trinity

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Description:

  • Language: de/en
  • Pages: 24
  • Release: 11.02.2025
  • Term: 24:00
  • Opus: BWV170
  • Genre: Sacred & Church Music
  • Accompaniment: Piano
  • ISMN: 9790007349080
Bach composed the cantata Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust for alto solo for the 6th Sunday after Trinity in 1728. It comes from his third Leipzig cantata cycle, in which he sought new expressive possibilities in numerous individual solutions. This cantata gets its unmistakable coloration from its unusual instrumentation. While the solo part in the first aria is accompanied by strings and oboe d'amore, in the second it is accompanied by an organ making virtuoso use of two manuals, supported solely by a "little basset" in the high strings; the distance from God lamented in the text is reflected here in the absence of a bass. In the third aria, Bach took up the instrumentation of the first movement again, but added an additional solo instrument. However, this apparently had to be replaced by the obbligato organ before the first performance. Bach only reverted to his original plan for a later performance and assigned the part to a transverse flute. This edition offers both versions.