Cantata BWV 191, Gloria in excelsis Deo - Johann Sebastian Bach 'Helmuth Rilling'

Composition Year: 1733 (or 1743-46) in Leipzig
First Performance: 1745-12-25 in Leipzig
Dedication: Christmas Day
Recorded: Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart, Februar/Mai 1971
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Performers:
Nobuko Gamo-Yamamoto – Soprano • Adalbert Kraus – Tenore
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Hermann Sauter, Eugen Mayer, Heiner Schatz – Tromba • Karl Schad – Timpani • Peter-Lukas Graf, Heidi Indermühle – Flauto • Otto Winter, Adolf Meidhof – Oboe • Jürgen Wolf – Violoncello • Manfred Gräser – Contrabbasso • Martha Schuster – Organo, Cembalo
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Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart • Bach-Collegium Stuttgart • Helmuth Rilling - Conductor
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00:01 1. Chorus: Gloria in excelsis Deo
06:40 2. Duetto Aria (soprano, tenor): Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui sancto
12:13 3. Chorale: Sicut erat in principio
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Work:
Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the Highest), BWV 191, is a church cantata written by the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and the only one of his church cantatas set to a Latin text. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig probably in 1742, for a celebration by the university of Leipzig. The composition's three movements all derive from the Gloria of Bach's 1733 Kyrie–Gloria Mass, which the composer would later use as the Gloria of his Mass in B minor.
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Biography:
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites and Brandenburg Concertos; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations, The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
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In the last decades of his life, he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65.
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Bach Cantatas website: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/
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ATTRIBUTION
Music contained in this video is licensed to, Hänssler-Verlag, Germany