指揮： クリストファー・バックナル Christopher Bucknall
エンシェント室内管弦楽団 Academy of Ancient Music
countertenor： James Hall
Recorded at St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London January 2019
1. Alto： Bekennen will ich seinen Namen われはその御名を言い表わさん（われは彼の名を告げん）
Bekennen will ich seinen Namen (I shall acknowledge His name), BWV 200, is an arrangement by Johann Sebastian Bach of an aria from Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel's passion-oratorio Die leidende und am Kreuz sterbende Liebe. He scored it for alto, two violins and continuo, possibly as part of a cantata for the feast of Purification. He probably led the first performance around 1742.
History and text
Bach arranged in Bekennen will ich seinen Namen an aria, "Dein Kreuz, o Brautgam meiner Seelen" (Your cross, o bridegroom of my soul" from Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel's passion-oratorio Die leidende und am Kreuz sterbende Liebe. Bach's arrangement, dated around 1742-1743, was possibly part of a cantata for the Marian feast of Purification. The prescribed readings for the day were Malachi 3:1-4, and Luke 2:22-32.
Bach likely performed his arrangement in 1742 in Leipzig.
Music The aria is scored for solo alto voice, two violins, and basso continuo. As with many of Bach's latest cantatas, the aria has a "quality of mellow assurance". It is in adapted ternary form but includes no clear reprise of the opening section. The vocal line includes melismas but no other word painting.