Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Cantata BWV 8: Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben? (24 September 1724) 00:00 – Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben? (Chorus) 06:40 – Was willst du dich, mein Geist, entsetzen (Aria: T) 10:25 – Zwar fühlt mein schwaches Herz (Recitative: A) 11:19 – Doch weichet, ihr tollen, vergeblichen Sorgen! (Aria: B) 16:05 – Behalte nur, o Welt, das Meine! (Recitative: S) 17:08 – Herrscher über Tod und Leben (Chorale) Soloists: Soprano: Deborah York Alto: Ingeborg Danz Tenor: Mark Padmore Bass: Peter Kooy Collegium Vocale Gent performs under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe. Recorded by Harmonia Mundi France in 1998. “‘Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?’ was completed on 24 September 1724. For a performance in Bach’s later years the work was transposed from E major to D major, which resulted in a number of minor changes. [The version here is the one in E major.] Caspar Neumann’s chorale melody appears in an expressively ornamented form in the opening chorus, but in comparison with most of the other chorale-cantatas, this choral writing is conspicuously simple. Bach makes one of the lines of the chorale — ‘Meine Zeit läuft immer hin’ — the point of departure for an atmospherically extremely dense musical depiction. The main weight of the opening movement lies in the unusually expansive instrumental ritornelli, for which Bach has devised an extraordinary ‘pictorial’ sound texture. Over an unremitting quaver movement in the muted strings, the …

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