J.S.バッハ： カンタータ BWV 209 "Non sa che sia dolore"

アルス・リリカ・ヒューストン Ars Lyrica Houston
トラヴェルソ：コリン・セント・マーティン Colin St-Martin
ハープシコード：Matthew Dirst
ソプラノ独唱：ローレン・スノーファー Lauren Snouffer（The piece for solo soprano voice）
in Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, TX on Friday, September 21, 2018

Non sa che sia dolore (He knows not what sorrow is), BWV 209,[a] is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and first performed in Leipzig in 1747. With Amore Traditore, it is one of the composer's only two settings of a text in Italian.

History and text
Internal evidence suggests that the text by an unknown librettist was not written before 1729. The text also contains clues as to the occasion for which it was written. It refers to Ansbach, Bavaria, and, somewhat confusingly given Bavaria's location, a sea voyage. Mincham draws attention to an interest in Ansbach in Italian music, and suggests that Bach would have known that the city was the home of Giuseppe Torelli at the end of the 17th century. However, while the identity of the person undertaking the voyage is not clear, it appears to be a German rather than an Italian. It has been suggested that Bach composed this cantata as a farewell for someone leaving Leipzig's academic community such as Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761) or Lorenz Albrecht Beck (1723-1768), both men having connections with Ansbach.

Bach's autograph score does not survive. The cantata was first published in 1881 in the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausgabe, the first complete edition of the composer's works.

Scoring and structure
The piece is scored for solo soprano voice, flauto traverso, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.
The cantata has five movements:

Music
Bach may have derived the opening sinfonia in B minor from a previous concerto. It includes a prominent "baroque 'weeping' figure". The first recitative uses tonality to underline the meaning of the "quasi-philosophical" text. The following da capo aria is in E minor and features a flute obbligato. The second recitative is short and secco, contrasting sharply with the final "ebulliently major" da capo aria.

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