JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / CHAMBER CONCERT. PASIECZNIK – GARSTKA

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CONCERT WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE AUDIENCE, TRANSMITTED LIVE – LIVE STREAMING ON YOUTUBE CHANNEL

It’s difficult to establish the exact date and addressee of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Non sa che sia dolore BWV 209 cantata. The subject of the composition is the pain caused by the necessary separation from a friend. However, in the end some hope appears amidst the grief heard in the first part, and the final aria encourages us to bravely face that which is new and unknown.

In contrast, the wedding cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten BWV 202 is filled with joy and delight. It will be performed as the concert finale. In terms of performers, the modest requirements (solo soprano accompanied only by: oboe, violin, and basso continuo) suggest that the cantata was written for a wedding of townspeople or noblemen. Its humorous and dancing character certainly would not be appropriate for a duke’s court. We cannot rule out that Bach wrote this piece for his own marriage to Anna Magdalena in 1721. The wonderful music ideally reflects the literary meaning. The initial winter, sinister and dark, is transformed into a blossoming spring landscape full of life.

The Ouverture g-moll, entered into the Bach Werke Verzeichnis catalogue under the number 1070, will be played between the two cantatas. There are, however, certain doubts as to its author. Our main source – the 1753 copy by Christian Friedrich Penzel – is signed only “Sig. Bach”. Some researchers then tend to attribute authorship to Wilhelm Friedmann, Bach’s eldest son. This thesis seems to find support in the style of the composition and the close relations between Penzel and the Master’s extremely talented son.

Marta Dziewanowska-Pachowska

THE PROGRAMME

Johann Sebastian Bach

Cantata Non sa che sia dolore BWV 209

Ouverture g-moll BWV 1070

Cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten BWV 202

PERFORMERS

OLGA PASIECZNIK SOPRANO

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KRZYSZTOF GARSTKA HARPSICHORD, CONDUCTOR

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