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Bach’s cantata (No 6) based on the Gospel account of Jesus’s post-Resurrection evening meeting with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus was first performed on Easter Monday 1725, and contained a version of this prelude. It has an obbligato played in the violoncello piccolo encompassing an extended tenor register, and in the organ version this is played by the hands, with the chorale melody appearing above, and a pedal bass line. Both accompaniment and bass draw motivic figures from the chorale. The words here ask Jesus to stay with the suppliants, because ‘it has now become evening’—the evening of mortal life, perhaps?
from notes by Ian Carson © 1996
Bachs Kantate (Nr. 6) entstammt einer Passage des Evangeliums, die beschreibt, wie Jesus am Abend nach seiner Wiederauferstehung zwei Jüngern auf der Straße nach Emmaus erscheint. Mit dieser Präludiumversion erlebte sie am Ostermontag 1725 ihre Erstaufführung. Sie enthält ein Obligato, das, das erweiterte Tenorregister umfassend, von dem Violincello Piccolo gespielt wird. In der Orgelversion wird diese Passage von den Händen, mit einer darüber liegenden Choralmelodie und einer Baßlinie auf dem Pedal, gespielt. Sowohl die Begleitung als auch der Baß zeichnen ein Bild der motivischen Choralfiguren. Die Arbeit drückt hier eine Bitte an Jesus aus, die Flehenden nicht zu verlassen, denn ‘es wird nun Abend’—vielleicht Abend des sterblichen Daseins?
aus dem Begleittext von Ian Carson © 1996
Deutsch: Ute Mansfeldt
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