No 137 Original versus Parody II

J. S. Bach: Marche D-Dur, BWV 1177 • J. S. Bach: Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompeten, BWV 207.2 • J. S. Bach: Jauchzet, frohlocket, BWV 248.2/I • J. S. Bach: Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen, BWV 213

Artists: Hana Blažíková (soprano), Maarten Engeltjes (altus), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, direction: Ton Koopman

Johann Sebastian Bach was an unparalleled master of the parody technique, the deliberate use of previously composed music in a new context. For example, large parts of the famous Christmas Oratorio are based on secular cantatas. In the congratulatory cantata »Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompete« (»Sound, blaring tones of spirited trumpets«) Bach even presents a double parody: he took the arias and choruses from a congratulatory cantata written nearly ten years previously, which itself contains music from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, composed in Köthen. In this concert, Ton Koopman, president of the Bach Archive Foundation, reveals these parodic connections in Bach’s works with his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir in a very special way.