Big Moose Bach Fest
Saturday, August 31, 2024, 2:30 pm
Randolph Town Hall
Cameo Baroque
Trios and Arias by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trio in G Major, BWV 1038
Largo - Vivace - Adagio - Presto
This charming, brief trio was composed for the Leipzig University Collegium, which Bach led in the 1730’s. It was performed in Leipzig’s Zimmermann’s coffee house.
Bete aber auch dabei
But you should also pray when you are awake. For your great guilt, pray for patience from your Judge, so that he may make you free from sin, and purified.
This profoundly penitential aria is from Cantata 115, for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity (late fall), probably composed in 1724. As was often done in Bach’s day, all the arias on this program have been arranged to suit our instruments.
Mein gläubiges Herze
My faithful heart, exult, sing, frolic, your Jesus is here! Hence sorrow, hence grieving.
I will simply tell you: my Jesus is near.
This playful, joyful aria from Cantata 68 was composed in 1725, for Pentecost. Note the concluding trio sonata, an exceedingly rare addition to an aria.
Fantasia in a minor, BWV 904, 1724 or 1725
So wie es Gott mit dir // Wohl dir // Vergnügen und Lust
Just as God has tended you faithfully as a father, so he will continue as your very best friend, until the very end. And therefore surely believe, by his sweat and toil, he will let you lack no good thing. // You are fortunate, your good fortune is not to be counted. // Pleasure, joy, prosperity and health will increase and strengthen and refresh. The eye, the breast will always have their share of sweet contentment.
This group is from Cantata 197, a cantata for a wedding, which Bach composed in 1736, from an earlier cantata.
Erfüllet, ihr himmlischen, göttlichen Flammen
Fill, you divine heavenly flames, the faithful hearts that long for you. Our souls feel the mightiest impulses of the most ardent love, and taste on earth the delights of heaven.
This aria is from Cantata 1, composed in 1725 for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin, March 25th. Bach’s cantatas were numbered in the order in which they were prepared for publication by the Bach Gesellschaft in the 1850’s, not in chronological sequence.
Trio in G, BWV 1039
Adagio - Allegro, ma non presto - Adagio e piano - Presto
This much larger trio was probably composed in the late 1730’s, for the Collegium’s performance at Zimmerman’s.
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Cameo Baroque is the Upper Valley’s period instrument ensemble. Leslie Stroud, traverso - Beth Hilgartner, recorders and voice, Laurie Rabut, viola da gamba -Ernie Drown, harpsichord.
This program is given in memory of Heywood Alexander.
Saturday, August 31, 2024, 2:30 pm
Randolph Town Hall
Cameo Baroque
Trios and Arias by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trio in G Major, BWV 1038
Largo - Vivace - Adagio - Presto
This charming, brief trio was composed for the Leipzig University Collegium, which Bach led in the 1730’s. It was performed in Leipzig’s Zimmermann’s coffee house.
Bete aber auch dabei
But you should also pray when you are awake. For your great guilt, pray for patience from your Judge, so that he may make you free from sin, and purified.
This profoundly penitential aria is from Cantata 115, for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity (late fall), probably composed in 1724. As was often done in Bach’s day, all the arias on this program have been arranged to suit our instruments.
Mein gläubiges Herze
My faithful heart, exult, sing, frolic, your Jesus is here! Hence sorrow, hence grieving.
I will simply tell you: my Jesus is near.
This playful, joyful aria from Cantata 68 was composed in 1725, for Pentecost. Note the concluding trio sonata, an exceedingly rare addition to an aria.
Fantasia in a minor, BWV 904, 1724 or 1725
So wie es Gott mit dir // Wohl dir // Vergnügen und Lust
Just as God has tended you faithfully as a father, so he will continue as your very best friend, until the very end. And therefore surely believe, by his sweat and toil, he will let you lack no good thing. // You are fortunate, your good fortune is not to be counted. // Pleasure, joy, prosperity and health will increase and strengthen and refresh. The eye, the breast will always have their share of sweet contentment.
This group is from Cantata 197, a cantata for a wedding, which Bach composed in 1736, from an earlier cantata.
Erfüllet, ihr himmlischen, göttlichen Flammen
Fill, you divine heavenly flames, the faithful hearts that long for you. Our souls feel the mightiest impulses of the most ardent love, and taste on earth the delights of heaven.
This aria is from Cantata 1, composed in 1725 for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin, March 25th. Bach’s cantatas were numbered in the order in which they were prepared for publication by the Bach Gesellschaft in the 1850’s, not in chronological sequence.
Trio in G, BWV 1039
Adagio - Allegro, ma non presto - Adagio e piano - Presto
This much larger trio was probably composed in the late 1730’s, for the Collegium’s performance at Zimmerman’s.
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Cameo Baroque is the Upper Valley’s period instrument ensemble. Leslie Stroud, traverso - Beth Hilgartner, recorders and voice, Laurie Rabut, viola da gamba -Ernie Drown, harpsichord.
This program is given in memory of Heywood Alexander.