Johann Sebastian Bach made a lot of great music.
"Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" is my favourite one and it is also very healthy.
Many studies showed that this music decreases our blood pressure, decreases our heart rate and even decreases our cortisol, which is also known as "stress hormone".

I just love to listen to this music. I feel super relaxed afterwards, I can concentrate way better and I also feel healthier.
If you feel bad or depressed sometimes, tune in and enjoy this music! You will feel like new born! ;)

So listen to this wonderful music and have fun!

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life), BWV 147 in 1723 during his first year as Thomaskantor, the director of church music in Leipzig. His cantata is part of his first cantata cycle there and was written for the Marian feast of the Visitation on 2 July, which commemorates Mary's visit to Elizabeth as narrated in the Gospel of Luke in the prescribed reading for the feast day. Bach based the music on his earlier cantata BWV 147a, written originally in Weimar in 1716 for Advent. He expanded the Advent cantata in six movements to ten movements in two parts in the new work. While the text of the Advent cantata was written by the Weimar court poet Salomo Franck, the librettist of the adapted version who added several recitatives is anonymous.

Bach began the cantata with a chorus for the full orchestra, followed by alternating recitatives and arias with often obbligato instrument. He scored it for four vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of trumpet, two oboes, strings, and continuo. The closing chorale of the earlier work was replaced by the hymn "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne" (1661) by Martin Janus, with a melody by Johann Schop. Two of its stanzas close the two parts of the cantata in an identical setting. While Bach often composed four-part chorales to end a cantata, he embedded such a setting here in a pastoral instrumental concerto. This music became famous in a piano transcription by Dame Myra Hess as Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

♪ Cantata BWV 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (1716 & 1723)

The cantata is scored for four soloists and a four-part choir, a festive trumpet, two oboes (oboe d'amore, oboe da caccia), two violins, viola and basso continuo including bassoon. Its ten movements are in two parts, movements 1 to 6 to be performed before the sermon, the others after the sermon.

Part I
i. Chorus: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (based on movement 1 of the former work)
ii. Recitative (tenor): Gebenedeiter Mund!
iii. Aria (alto, oboe d'amore): Schäme dich, o Seele nicht
iv. Recitative (bass): Verstockung kann Gewaltige verblenden
v. Aria (soprano, violin): Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn
vi. Chorale: Wohl mir, daß ich Jesum habe

Part II
vii. Aria (tenor): Hilf, Jesu, hilf, daß ich auch dich bekenne
viii. Recitative (alto): Der höchsten Allmacht Wunderhand
ix. Aria (bass, trumpet, oboes): Ich will von Jesu Wundern singen
x. Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude

Christine Schäfer, soprano
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Christopher Maltman, baritone

Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Concentus Musicus Wien
Conducts: Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Live from the Kloster Melk, Benedictine Monastery in Austria, 2000

(HD 1080p)

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