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Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 discography

{{Short description|Recordings of Bach's 1725 chorale cantata}}

Bach composed {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1|italic=unset}}, as chorale cantata for the Marian feast of the Annunciation, for a first performance in a church service in Leipzig on 25 March 1725.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2021}} The cantata, for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, four-part choir and Baroque orchestra, takes around 25 minutes to perform.{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA666 666]}}

Recordings

The conductor Fritz Lehmann recorded nine Bach cantatas with the Berliner Motettenchor and the Berliner Philharmoniker for Deutsche Grammophon. Recordings of nine cantatas were made between 1950 and 1952, and {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}} was the first one to be released, in 1952. Lehmann died in 1956, preventing an expansion of the project. The nine cantatas were reissued by Eloquence Classics{{sfn|Eloquence|2021}} in 2018.{{sfn|JPC|2021}} Fritz Werner recorded around 50 of Bach's church cantatas with the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn and the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra between 1959 and 1974, recording {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}} in 1965. Several of them were reissued in 2004. A reviewer of the first volume noted: "Fritz Werner has this music in his blood. His instincts for Bach style are generally sound and he directs the music with a profound belief in it. These are performances of quiet conviction."{{sfn|Quinn|2004}}

In 1971, {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}} was the first cantata for the project to record all church cantatas by Bach on period instruments in historically informed performances for what is now known as the Teldec series (it began on the Telefunken label);{{sfn|Harnoncourt|1971}} the conductor was Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who was one of two conductors on the project, the other being Gustav Leonhardt.{{sfn|Kenyon|2011}}{{sfn|Henahan|1971}}{{sfn|Marshall|1973}} While some instruments such as baroque violins were relatively easily available, other instruments necessary for historically informed performance posed more challenges, for example, the oboe da caccia which is specified in the score of this cantata. A reconstructed version of this instrument was available by 1973,{{sfn|Harnoncourt|1973}} when the revival of the instrument had benefited from scholarly research at the beginning of the 1970s.{{sfn|Dahlqvist|1973}}{{sfn|Karp|1973}} However, it is not clear what would have been available for Jürg Schäftlein and Karl Gruber, the oboists of Harnoncourt's instrumental ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien, when BWV 1 was recorded. Another aspect of historically informed performance is the use of all male singers (which was the norm for Bach in Leipzig). Harnoncourt conducted the first four cantatas with the Wiener Sängerknaben, with a soprano soloist from the boys' choir and a countertenor for the alto part.{{sfn|Henahan|1971}}

Helmuth Rilling, who began a recording of all Bach cantatas in 1969 and completed it in 1985,{{sfn|Kenyon|2011}} recorded {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}} in 1980, with the Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart.{{sfn|Hamburg|2021}}{{rp|5}} Thomaskantor Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, recorded Bach cantatas with the Thomanerchor and the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. They recorded {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}}, coupled with Bach's chorale cantata on a hymn by Nicolai, {{lang|de|Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140|italic=unset}}, in 1987.{{sfn|Bertelsmann|2021}} Pieter Jan Leusink conducted all Bach church cantatas with the Holland Boys Choir and the Netherlands Bach Collegium in historically informed performance, however with women for the solo soprano parts. He completed the project within a year on the occasion of the Bach Year 2000. A reviewer from Gramophone noted: "Leusink's success elsewhere comes largely through his admirably well-judged feeling for tempos and a means of accentuation which drives the music forward inexorably".{{sfn|Freeman-Attwood|2001}}

Masaaki Suzuki, who studied historically informed practice in Europe began recording Bach's church cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan in 1999, at first not aiming at a complete cycle, but completing all in 2017.{{sfn|Kemp|2017}} They released {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}} in 2007.{{sfn|BIS|2021}} Sigiswald Kuijken recorded a series of cantatas with the ensemble La Petite Bande with vocalists singing one voice per part (OVPP). They recorded {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}} in 2007.{{sfn|Veen|2008}} The Swiss J. S. Bach-Stiftung plans to cover all church cantata by Bach in recorded live concerts with introductions. They covered {{lang|de|Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern}} in 2010.{{sfn|Bertelsmann|2021}} In 2013, a CD was released sung by the Thomanerchor with the Gewandhausorchester, conducted by Georg Christoph Biller. As part 9 of their series Das Kirchenjahr mit Johann Sebastian Bach (The church year with J. S. Bach), titled Marian Feasts, they performed Cantata 125 for Purification, Cantata 1 for Annunciation, and Cantata 147 for Visitation.{{sfn|AllMusic|2021}}

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+ Recordings of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Conductor / Choir / Orchestra

! scope="col" | Soloists

! scope="col" | Label

! scope="col" | Year

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Lehmann

| title = J. S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 1

| conductor = {{sortname|Fritz|Lehmann}}{{sfn|Eloquence|2021}}

| choir = Berliner Motettenchor

| orchestra = Berliner Philharmoniker

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Deutsche Grammophon
{{OCLC|64384066}}

| year = {{Start date|1952}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Werner

| title = Les Grandes Cantates de J. S. Bach Vol. 1

| conductor = {{sortname|Fritz|Werner}}

| choir = Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn

| orchestra = Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Erato
{{OCLC|1078110812}}{{sfn|Quinn|2004}}

| year = 1965

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Richter

| title = Bach Cantatas Vol. 2 – Easter

| conductor = {{sortname|Karl|Richter|dab=conductor}}

| choir = Münchener Bach-Chor

| orchestra = Münchener Bach-Orchester

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Archiv Produktion
{{OCLC|7023395}}

| year = {{Start date|1968}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Harnoncourt

| title = J. S. Bach: Das Kantatenwerk • Complete Cantatas • Les Cantates, Folge / Vol. 1

| conductor = {{sortname|Nikolaus|Harnoncourt}}

| choir = {{plainlist|

}}

| orchestra = Concentus Musicus Wien

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Teldec
{{OCLC|624441832}}

| year = {{Start date|1971}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Rilling

| title = Die Bach Kantate Vol. 38

| conductor = {{sortname|Helmuth|Rilling}}

| choir = Gächinger Kantorei

| orchestra = Bach-Collegium Stuttgart

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Hänssler
{{OCLC|673097273}}

| year = {{Start date|1980}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Rotzsch

| title = Bach Made in Germany Vol. 4 – Cantatas II

| conductor = {{sortname|Hans-Joachim|Rotzsch}}

| choir = Thomanerchor

| orchestra = Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Eterna
{{OCLC|32373438}}

| year = {{circa|{{Start date|1987}}}}{{sfn|Bertelsmann|2021}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Gardiner

| title = Bach Cantatas Vol. 21: Cambridge/Walpole St Peter

| conductor = {{sortname|John Eliot|Gardiner}}

| choir = Monteverdi Choir

| orchestra = English Baroque Soloists

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Soli Deo Gloria
{{OCLC|68812471}}

| year = {{Start date|2000}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Leusink

| title = Bach Edition Vol. 18 – Cantatas Vol. 9

| conductor = {{sortname|Pieter Jan|Leusink}}

| choir = Holland Boys Choir

| orchestra = Netherlands Bach Collegium

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Brilliant Classics
{{OCLC|872058181}}

| year = {{Start date|2000}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Koopman

| title = J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 13{{sfn|Anderson|2012}}

| conductor = {{sortname|Ton|Koopman}}

| orchestra = Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Antoine Marchand
{{OCLC|811333583}}

| year = {{Start date|2000}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Suzuki

| title = J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 34 (Cantatas from Leipzig 1725)

| conductor = {{sortname|Masaaki|Suzuki}}

| orchestra = Bach Collegium Japan

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = BIS
{{OCLC|811226000}}

| year = {{Start date|2007}}{{sfn|BIS|2021}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Milnes

| title = Bach: Cantates Marie de Nazareth

| conductor = {{sortname|Eric|Milnes}}

| choir =

| orchestra = Montréal Baroque

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = ATMA Classique
{{OCLC|156910016}}

| year = {{Start date|2006}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Kuijken

| title = J. S. Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol. 6 (Sexagesima and Estomihi Sundays)

| conductor = {{sortname|Sigiswald|Kuijken}}

| choir =

| orchestra = La Petite Bande

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Accent
{{OCLC|936410457}}

| year = {{Start date|2007}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Lutz

| title = J. S. Bach: Kantate BWV 1 "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"

| conductor = {{sortname|Rudolf|Lutz}}

| choir = Chor der J. S. Bach-Stiftung

| orchestra = Orchester der J. S. Bach-Stiftung

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Gallus Media
{{OCLC|918598096}}

| year = {{Start date|2010}}{{sfn|Bertelsmann|2021}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Beringer

| title = Bach: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern – Cantata BWV 1, 48, 78 & 140

| conductor = {{hs|Beringer, Karl-Friedrich}} {{nowrap|Karl-Friedrich Beringer}}

| choir = Windsbacher Knabenchor

| orchestra = Deutsche Kammer-Virtuosen Berlin

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Sony Music
{{OCLC|953527912}}

| year = {{Start date|2011}}

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Biller

| title = Kantaten · Cantatas / 1, 125, 147

| conductor = {{sortname|Georg Christoph|Biller}}

| choir = Thomanerchor

| orchestra = Gewandhausorchester

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Rondeau{{sfn|AllMusic|2021}}

| year = {{Start date|2013}}

}}

References

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= Cited sources =

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| last = Dahlqvist

| first = Reine

| jstor = 841114

| title = Taille, Oboe da Caccia and Corno Inglese

| date = May 1973

| journal = Galpin Society Journal

| volume = 26

| number =

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| date = 2006

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| first = Jonathan

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| date = April 2001

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| access-date = 2 February 2021

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  • {{Cite web

| last = Harnoncourt

| first = Nikolaus

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| title = Bach Das Kantatenwerk · Complete Cantatas / 1971 / Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete sacred cantatas Concentus Musicus Wien, Leonhardt Consort, Gustav Leonhardt 90 LPs (Vol. 1–45) Teldec (1971–1989)

| date = 1971

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| access-date = 31 January 2021

}}

  • {{Cite AV media

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| newspaper = The New York Times

| date = 12 December 1971

| page = 31

}}

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| first = Cary

| author1-link = Cary Karp

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| title = Structural Details of two J.H. Eichentopf Oboi da Caccia

| date = May 1973

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| first = Lindsay

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| title = Recording Bach's Cantatas, with Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan

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| access-date = 2 February 2021

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| first = Sir Nicholas

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| title = Review of Records / Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Cantatas, Volume 1

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| volume = 59

| number = 1

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  • {{cite web

| url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/bach-cantatas-bwv-1-125-147-mw0002544539

| title = Georg Christoph Biller / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Thomanerchor Leipzig / Bach: Cantatas, BWV 1, 125, 147

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}}

External links

  • {{Muziekweb|U00000633372/CLASSICAL|Cantata for soloists (3), choir and orchestra BWV.1, "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"}} (recordings)
  • {{Cite web

| last = Oron

| first = Aryeh

| url = https://www.bach-cantatas.com/BWV1.htm

| title = Cantata BWV 1 / Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

| website = Bach Cantatas Website

| date = 2020

| access-date = 19 January 2021

}}

  • Brian Robins: [https://www.allmusic.com/composition/cantata-no-1-wie-sch%C3%B6n-leuchtet-der-morgenstern-bwv-1-bc-a173-mc0002356171 Johann Sebastian Bach / Cantata No. 1, "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern," BWV 1 (BC A173)] (Description and recordings) AllMusic

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