Annotation

Per the booklet:

There’s no such thing as a cantata in one movement, not even
by the ingenious Johann Sebastian Bach. So this composition
is rather baffling. The American Bach specialist William H.
Scheide believes (in: Bach-Jahrbuch 1982, p. 81 - 96) that
this is a kind of “epistle music” that Bach composed for and
performed on St. Michael’s day, 29 September 1723 as an
interlude for a (lost) Köthen cantata. It’s quite possible that it
was intended for the Archangel’s feast day, because the
libretto of this cantata was read from the Revelation on this
day. As Bach didn’t have sufficient singers to cast a double
choir for church services in Leipzig – unlike the grand
occasions, on which he composed his motets for double choir
– according to Scheide, only a double-choir arrangement by a
different composer of an original five-part setting is recorded.

Annotation last modified on 2010-07-06 15:50 UTC.

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.7Kantate, BWV 50 "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft": Choeur.3:45Johann Sebastian BachCantatas BWV 49-52Johann Sebastian Bach; Bach-Ensemble, Helmuth RillingAlbum
  • DE1999-05-11
Hänssler Edition Bachakademie92017
1.7Kantate, BWV 50 “Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft”: Coro “Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft”3:38Johann Sebastian BachCantatas, BWV 49–52Johann Sebastian Bach; Bach‐Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth RillingAlbum
Hänssler Classic
17.7Kantate, BWV 50 "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft": Coro "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft"3:38Johann Sebastian BachDie kompletten Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach (Die Edition Bachakademie)Johann Sebastian BachAlbum
Hänssler Classic98.620
17.7Kantate, BWV 50 „Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft“: Coro „Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft“3:38Johann Sebastian BachThe Complete Works (Edition Bachakademie)Johann Sebastian BachAlbum
B.M.S., Bohemian Music Service s.r.o.MM44172-2
Pseudo-Release
1.7Kantate, BWV 50 "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft": Coro "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft"3:38Johann Sebastian BachDie kompletten Werke, Volume 5: Kantaten, BWV 49-52, 54-64Johann Sebastian Bach; Helmuth RillingAlbum + Compilation
Master Music (Czech label)MM4176-2

Relationships

recording engineer:Richard Hauck (engineer/producer)
choir vocals:Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart
conductor:Helmuth Rilling (conductor)
recorded at:Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
recording of:Kantate, BWV 50 "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft": Coro "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft" (in 1983-09)

Kantate, BWV 50 "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft": Coro "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft"

composer:Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician)
arrangements:Kantate, BWV 50 "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft": Coro "Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft" (Single choir reconstruction)