ExclusiveBach: Cantata No.152 - I. Concerto (Step forward on the way of faith)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No.152 - I. Concerto (Step forward on the way of faith). This beautiful piece was preserved by European Archive. It has Creative Commons license (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Exactly 310 years have passed since the first performance of this cantata 152: 30. December 1714! (and yes, that is why we released it today, 30. December 2024)

Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, (Step forward on the way of faith) BWV. 152 is a cantata by J. S. Bach, composed in Weimar for the Sunday after Christmas and first performed on 30 December 1714. The cantata is intimate chamber music for only two voices, soprano and bass, and four solo instruments. The opening sinfonia in two sections is reminiscent of a French overture that Bach had used to great effect a few weeks earlier in Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV. 61. The subject of the fugue is similar to that of Bach's organ fugue BWV. 536. The cantata is scored for two soloists - soprano and bass - and four solo instruments: recorder, oboe, viola d'amore, viola da gamba and basso continuo. In the surviving score, Bach himself wrote: 'Concerto à 1 Flaut. 1 viola da gamba. 1 viola d'amour. 1 Viola da Gamba. Sopr. è basso coll' organo'. This is the only cantata by Bach in which the viola d'amore is used.

The fog in the woods above the little river in Switzerland, lit by sun rays, was filmed by Christian Schlegel. The video was edited by Wenjing Ma.




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