Bach - Cantata BWV 106 - Nuno Oliveira

From Bach´s Cantata BWV 106 also called "Actus tragicus" and playing with original instruments, we have:

(...), soprano
Dean Kustra, alto
Benjamin Hullet, tenor
João Fernandes, bass

António Carrilho, recorder
Fernando Souza, recorder
Christoph Urbanetz, viola da gamba
Igor Przybylo, viola da gamba
Elisa Joglar Prieto, baroque cello
Daniel Zorzano Barbosa, double bass
Nuno Oliveira, chest organ and direction

This concert took place in Aveiro on the 12th of October 2001.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bach
• Cantata
• BWV
• 106
• Actus
• Tragicus
• Nuno
• Oliveira

[DCTenor]

Beautiful, but why is this performed a half step above modern pitch? This is performed a whole step higher than I would have thought, which may explain why the recording uses a tenor for what is marked in my score as an alto/bass duet. Just curious.

[harpsinuno]

It should be a bass, but for the bass we had it was too high. In fact there is a version on that pitch, which was F major at 415 Hz. I was looking at the sources and I couldn´t find if there is a reason for it. Ton Koopman did it in that pitch as well. It is the same as cantata BWV 4 which is sometimes performed in G minor because of the cornetos. E minor would not be a good pitch for those instruments for sure...

[DCTenor]

@harpsinuno Thanks. After I posted that I discovered that there are two editions, one in Eb and one in F. Seems most of the Youtube recordings are in F, and the demands of the instruments seem to explain it. I'm singing it next month, and I wonder what key it will be in!

[harpsinuno]

You should see this explanation from Ton Koopman. He has the answer for your question

[harpsinuno]

The tile of the youtube video is: Concerned to J S Bach's Cantatas: Ton Koopman speaks - BWV 106 - Actus Tragicus

[KyougetsuYoru]

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