🎺🎺🎺🎺 , Cantata 51 with Heinz Karl Schwebel, trumpet and Marilia Vargas, voz w/scores
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (“Exult in God in every land“[1] or “Shout for joy to God in all lands“[2]) BWV 51, in Leipzig. The work is Bach’s only church cantata scored for a solo soprano and trumpet. He composed it for general use (ogni tempo), in other words not for a particular date in the church calendar, although he used it for the 15th Sunday after Trinity: the first known performance was on 17 September 1730 in Leipzig. The work may have been composed earlier, possibly for an occasion at the court of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, for whom Bach had composed the Hunting Cantata and the Shepherd Cantata.
The text was written by an unknown poet who took inspiration from various biblical books, especially from psalms, and included as a closing chorale a stanza from the hymn “Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren“. Bach structured the work in five movements, with the solo voice accompanied by a Baroque instrumental