Cantata "Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut" BWV 199, Eugene Ysaye: Sonata op. 27 No. 2, Motet "Jesu, meine Freude" BWV 227
With the violinist Prof. Elisabeth Weber and the soprano Brita Rehsöft, we have two outstanding artists in the immediate vicinity of Schönberg, whose collaboration can be experienced for the first time at the Schönberg Music Summer. The focus will be on works by Johann Sebastian Bach - very special works:
The cantata "Mein Herz schwimmt im Blut" BWV 199 (text: Georg Christian Lehms) seems to have been written for a very specific singer in Bach's Weimar period. The work was also appreciated by the composer himself in retrospect, as it was re-edited and re-arranged for later Leipzig performances under different conditions. To this day, it remains a showpiece for sopranos. The instrumental scoring of a chorale is particularly noteworthy. In the Schönberg performance, we can look forward to the violoncello piccolo, played by Jakob Kuchenbuch. Text and music, and in particular their connection, make the concert's motto strikingly clear, as does the well-known motet "Jesu, meine Freude" BWV 227, whose textual framework, Johann Franck's poem written a few years after the Thirty Years' War, is just as emotive and is combined with texts from Paul's letter to the church in Rome with both musical-architectural and theologically striking virtuosity.
The subtitle of the concert could be "Bach & more", as Eugène Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 2 for solo violin, inspired by Bach, will be performed in the midst of Bach's music. As with the cantata, the work is certainly based on the idea of a specific performing personality and his passionate way of making music: the work is dedicated to the famous violinist Jaques Thibaud.
Brita Rehsöft (soprano), Elisabeth Weber (violin) and other performers, St. Laurentius Schönberg church choir (conductor: KMD Christoph D. Minke)
