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Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Reinhold Kubik. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: Paperbound. German title: Sehet, welch eine Liebe. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Christmas. Study score. Composed 1723. BWV 64. 48 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.064/07. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3106407).ISBN 9790007043780. DIN A5 inches. Key: E minor. Language: German/English. Text: Johann Oswald Knauer.
The cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe (See what love), BWV 64, composed for the 3rd day of Christmas in 1723, opens with a chorus in the "old style", namely without obbligato instruments. As in the cantata Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes (For this the Son of God has appeared), BWV 40, performed the day before, this work features no fewer than three chorale movements, two of which frame the first recitative "Geh Welt! behalte nur das Deine". Since the two chorales do not appear in Oswald Knauer’s original text from 1720, it can be assumed that Bach deliberately wished to mirror the previous day’s cantata with its internal chorales. Here, however, the festive horns of BWV 40 are replaced by an antiquated ensemble of cornett (zink) and trombones, which, along with the wind accompaniment to the chorales and the stile antico of the opening movement, make for an unusual and diverting soundscape.
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