Author: hautbois
Date: 2008-11-25 23:13
I always welcomed a moment off instead of playing an alternate note for the Bflat. The violins, with whom you are colle parte, play the low G (written Bflat for the d'amore). Interestingly, my Neue Bach score has the d'amore playing C (written Eflat for the d'amore) against the violin G, so your instincts are in accordance with their version. I have found that there are often errors in the written d'amore parts of Bach which have come my way. It may be that the transcribers did not have the d'amore part to work from, but rather, a transposition, from which their transpositions are subject to error. There was some inconsistency in the manner in which Bach wrote the parts for the d'amore, only later settling upon himself providing a transposed part for the performer rather than having the player do that transposition himself.
The aria which needs that increased stamina is #57, which is in the 6th cantata, and comes after full solo arias in many of the previous cantatas. Were it in the first cantata it would feel a lot more comfortable... If you are playing oboe as well as d'amorein the 6 cantatas, then it becomes quite a marathon.
Elizabeth
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