Vivace. In cheerful sixteenth-notes, the music moves like an invitation to the dance. And the sung Text? “I look forward to my death.”
It is the final Aria is one of the most well-known solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, which bears the title: “I’ve had enough.” To bundle such cantatas in one evening, a fairly esoteric program. Michael and the Academy for Ancient music Berlin take long for you to a reverent audience in the Large hall of the concert house.
imagine that the Church cantatas at the time of the Thomas Cantor in Leipzig, a firm place in the Sunday and daily Main service. This composition for the Feast Mariae cleaning, today, Mary Candlemas. Proportionally, the cantatas make up about half of Bach’s work. This means that the votes had to be in the greatest haste from the scores and in such distress rehearsed copied. Always short of time so, as the Academy (Akamus) is not now there to happiness. She plays with the use of all of their experience, the commitment of each individual member. Oboe, strings, Basso continuo, with the conductor Raphael Alpermann, organ.
existence in misery
“I’ve had enough” refers to the hl. Simeon, who welcomed the presentation of Jesus in the temple, the small child so, with a song of praise to the Messiah. “Lord, now thou lettest go thy servant depart in peace.” Time of the cantata the seal of Christoph Brinkmann is arrested, of course, because in difficult-to-understand of beyond mysticism, the Christian desires in this Text, nothing more than death. By strings alone, accompanied, sings Michael Full in the tone of intimate expression, “a Slumbering, her languid eyes”.
Of Hans Sachs in Bayreuth “mostly Barrie Kosky’s, Falstaff, die Meistersinger” Under the Linden: It is amazing how the celebrated stage singer in the Bach issue of internalized, this “But” after saying goodbye to the world, the existence in misery.
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Akamus controls instrumental the motet “The spirit helps our weakness”, a double choir between strings and brass in a differentiated manner, elegantly played. As one of the concert master of the ensemble, Bernhard Forck leads the instruments vigorously, joined by the oboes and a bassoon. Also for the Feast of Mary cleaning the cantata is, at least partially, “The peace be determined with You,” because the Christian wants a divorce”, like Simeon, in peace.” A wonderful chorale prelude with a solo violin and a Cantus firmus, which is here occupied with the Oboe, adorns the score. “World farewell, I am your tired.” Finally, the Disciples of Christ, moves a rod on his way to the cross, the shepherd’s staff, and in the accompaniment of the waves foaming on his boat trip. Michael Volle moves with the Oboist Xenia Löffler, in mutual Concert. The Wagner-singer keeps his voice so flexible that he can throw himself joyfully in the Bach coloratura.
