Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten ("If a man
love me, he will keep my words", more literally: "He
who loves me will obey my commands"), BWV 74, is a
church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it
in his second year in Leipzig for the first day of
Pentecost (Whit Sunday). The prescribed readings for
the feast day were from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts
2:1–13) and the Gospel of John, part of the Farewell
discourse (John 14:23–31). Bach first performed the
cantata on 20 May ...(+)
Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten ("If a man
love me, he will keep my words", more literally: "He
who loves me will obey my commands"), BWV 74, is a
church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it
in his second year in Leipzig for the first day of
Pentecost (Whit Sunday). The prescribed readings for
the feast day were from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts
2:1–13) and the Gospel of John, part of the Farewell
discourse (John 14:23–31). Bach first performed the
cantata on 20 May 1725.
This, the tenor aria "Kommt, eilet, stimmet Sait und
Lieder" (Come, hurry, sound string and song), moves
into a technically demanding tenor aria dominated by
swirling string lines. The movement is in a combined
ternary and ritornello form, adopting a heavy emphasis
on the words komm and eilet ("come" and "hasten"), and
concludes with a modulation to a minor key and darker
harmonies.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wer_mich_liebet,_der_wir
d_mein_Wort_halten,_BWV_74).
Although originally scored for tenor, two violins,
viola, and basso continuo, I created this Arrangement
for Viola & Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello).