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Johann Sebastian Bach Day of reck’ning! Judgment day

Cantata for the 9th Sunday after Trinity BWV 168, 1725

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The text of Bach’s cantata "Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort” was published in 1715, that is during Bach’s Weimar period, in the “Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer" by Salomon Frank. This concisely-written but powerful work was, however, only composed ten years later in Leipzig, and was heard for the first time on 29 July 1725, the 9th Sunday after Trinity. Its main dramatic-musical emphasis lies clearly in the first movement, a dark, almost operatic movement for baritone and string orchestra in B minor. By contrast, the ensuing aria for tenor with obbligato oboe accompaniment is distinctly more intimate, and the duet between soprano and alto – just accompanied by continuo – is more restrained in its musical language and expression than the first movement. In between there are two extended recitatives, the first of which leads into an arioso. The breadth of expression within the cantata is striking, its opening movement a masterpiece of Bach’s dramatic writing.
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    1 Aria (Basso)

    Day of reck’ning, Judgment Day
    when the very rocks / rocky hills are split apart,
    word, at which my blood is frozen,
    day of reck’ning!
    You must pay! Go forth, soul!
    Oh, now, to God you must make payment
    for his blessings, life and body.

    2 Recitativo (Basso)

    This life is not my own,
    which I today on earth am living:
    soul, body are a loan,
    my lot and rank, all by my God are given,
    are mine to hold as steward
    and ever faithfully to manage,
    from God’s own hands received in trust.
    Ah! Woe is me! I shake
    for when I look into my conscience
    and all my reckonings with grievous faults are seething!
    I tremble day and night

    ...
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    1 Aria (Basso)

    Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort,
    das die Felsen selbst zerspaltet,
    Wort, wovon mein Blut erkaltet!
    Tue Rechnung! Seele, fort!
    Ach, du musst Gott wiedergeben
    seine Güter, Leib und Leben.
    Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort!

    2 Recitativo (Tenore)

    Es ist nur fremdes Gut,
    was ich in diesem Leben habe;
    Geist, Leben, Mut und Blut
    und Amt und Stand ist meines Gottes Gabe,
    es ist mir zum Verwalten
    und treulich damit hauszuhalten
    von hohen Händen anvertraut.
    Ach! aber ach! mir graut,
    wenn ich in mein Gewissen gehe
    und meine Rechnungen so voll Defekte sehe!
    Ich habe Tag und Nacht

    ...
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