Bach - Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir BWV 131 | WDR Rundfunkchor | WDR Sinfonieorchester

Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir" / Out of the Depths I Cry to You (BWV 131), performed by current and former members of the Choir Academy of the WDR Radio Choir and the Orchestra Academy of the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christian Rohrbach on Jan. 16, 2022 at the WDR Funkhaus. Johann Sebastian Bach - Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir / Out of the Depths I Cry to You (Cantata BWV 131) Franziska Groß, soprano Sophia Bauer, soprano Laura Maria Püsch, alto Milena Haunhorst, alto Jo Holzwarth, tenor Maxmilian Fieth, tenor Soowon Han, bass Frederik Schauhoff, bass Hyunsoo Lee, oboe George Warren, organ Marco Gialluca, violin 1 Yugo Inoue, viola Mischa Pfeiffer, viola Eunhye Cho, violoncello Stefania Secci, double bass Christian Rohrbach, conductor ► For more on the Rundfunkchor, concerts and current livestreams, visit https://rundfunkchor.wdr.de ► More about the WDR Symphony Orchestra, concerts and current livestreams at https://sinfonieorchester.wdr.de ► The WDR Symphony Orchestra on Facebook   / wdrsinfonieorchester   ► Further concerts and introductions to works from the world of classical music, symphonic crossover, choral singing and concerts for children can also be found in the ARD Mediathek: https://www.ardmediathek.de/klassik Introduction to the work: Three malt of grain, two fathoms of wood, six bundles of brushwood and, in addition, 85 florins - this is the salary that Johann Sebastian Bach negotiates with his ecclesiastical employer in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, in 1707. In April, Bach passed an audition on the organ in the then Free Imperial City, and on July 1, he begins his service at the Divi Blasii Church there. In the meantime, dramatic events took place in Mulhouse: At the end of May, the town was ravaged by a conflagration. Almost 250 residential buildings burned down in the process, causing rapid inflation. As a result, Bach is forced to pull up stakes after only one year and seek his fortune in Weimar. Even though his time in Mulhouse only lasted a year, it had a lasting effect on Bach's life. It was here that the 22-year-old married his first wife Maria Barbara, with whom he was to have seven children - including Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. One of the works Bach composed in Mulhouse is the cantata "Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir" BWV 131. It is presumably to be understood as a funeral dirge in response to the great town fire - commissioned by Georg Christian Eilmar, then archdeacon at the church Beatae Mariae Virginis. The context in which the work was first performed remains obscure, but it is considered likely that it was a penitential service in memory of the victims of the flaming inferno. The text of the cantata is based on some lines of the 130th Psalm, and in the arias two stanzas from the song "Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut" by Bartholomäus Ringwaldt (1532 - 1599) are added. The instrumentation is small, almost chamber music-like. Bach originally intended one violin and two violas, probably to clarify the textual content by a darker tone. However, he was practical enough to place the part of the first viola in such a way that it could easily be taken over by a violin. This is the form in which the work will be heard in our matinee. Text: Otto Hagedorn