Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ | |
| BWV: | 33 |
| Occasion: | 13th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Choral cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Ob 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Konrad Hubert , unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Alone to you, Herr Jesu Christ , ( BWV 33) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote the chorale cantata in 1724 for the 13th Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on September 3, 1724. It is based on the hymn of the same name by Konrad Hubert (1540).
Story and words
In his second year in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for the 13th Sunday after Trinity. That year he wrote a series of choral cantatas. The prescribed readings for Sunday were Gal 3 : 15–22 LUT , Paul on “law and promise”, and Lk 10,23–37 LUT , the parable of the good Samaritan .
The text by an unknown poet is based on the song by Konrad Hubert , which was printed in Nuremberg in 1540 with an additional fourth stanza. Each stanza consists of nine lines. The poet retained the wording of the first and last stanzas, and he composed the two inner stanzas into a sequence of recitative and aria . The song, the subject of which is the repentant sinner, relates only to the gospel in general. The poet deepens the reference in sentence 4, "Give me only out of mercy / the true Christian faith" and in sentence 5, "Give that I love my neighbor out of pure instinct / as myself", which takes up the core sentence of the Gospel.
An anonymous song melody for Alone for You, Herr Jesu Christ was printed in 1541 in Wittenberg . It was often processed musically, first by Sethus Calvisius , later by Michael Praetorius and others. According to Klaus Hofmann, it was written by Paul Hofhaimer in 1512 for a secular song. In the cantata, Bach uses them as usual in the chorale fantasy at the beginning and a four-part movement at the end, and he alludes to them in the duet (movement 5).
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by three vocal soloists ( alto , tenor and bass ), a four-part choir, two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo
- Coro: Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ
- Recitativo (bass): My God and Judge
- Aria (old): How fearful my steps shook
- Recitativo (tenor): My God, do not reject me
- Aria (tenor, bass): God, whose name is love
- Chorale: Honor to God in the highest throne
music
In his first year in Leipzig, Bach composed Du Shall God, Your Lords, Love (BWV 77) on the same occasion , beginning with a choir about the decisive commandment to love God and one's neighbor, on which, according to the parallel passage to the Gospel of Mt. 22,34-40 LUT , the law and the prophets hang.
The opening chorus from Alone to You, Herr Jesu Christ is a chorale fantasy, with the cantus firmus in the soprano, the lower voices mostly homophonic , sometimes polyphonic, and extensive ritornelles and interludes that frame all nine lines of the song.
In the alto aria (movement 3) "How fearful my steps shook", the first violins play with mutes and the other strings pizzicato to express fear. The wavering steps appear in figures full of syncope . Movement 5, a duet of tenor and bass "God, who is called love"), represents God's love in the consonances of sixth and third parallels. The final chorale is a four-part movement that interweaves the lower voices in expressive lines.
Lore
The autograph of the cantata was in the possession of Julius Schubring in the 19th century and was probably given to him by his friend Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Later inherited by Walther Schubring , it was sold through the Stargardt auction house in 1965. It is now in the Scheide Library at Princeton University and is digitized.
Recordings
LP / CD
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 33 & BWV 95. Hans Heintze , Cathedral Choir & Bremen Bach Orchestra , Eva Bornemann, Georg Jelden, Roland Kunz . Cantate / Vanguard, 1962.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 2. Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Leonhardt-Consort , René Jacobs , Marius van Altena, Max van Egmond . Teldec , 1974.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 4 - Sundays after Trinity I. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Julia Hamari , Peter Schreier , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Archive production , 1976.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 49. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Helen Watts , Frieder Lang . Philippe Huttenlocher . Hänssler, 1979.
- Bach Edition Vol. 4 - Cantatas Vol. 1. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Sytse Buwalda, Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar. Brilliant Classics, 1999.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 6: Koethen / Frankfurt. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Nathalie Stutzmann , Christoph Genz , Jonathan Brown. Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 13. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Franziska Gottwald, Paul Agnew, Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 24 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1724. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij . UP, 2002.
DVD
- Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ . Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Ruth Sandhoff, Andreas Post, Markus Volpert, Gallus Media, St. Gallen 2008.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 and Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04431-4 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach . 1947. 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas . Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig), ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verlag).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ, BWV 33 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 33 Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ by Bach Cantatas (English)
- Alone to you, Lord Jesus Christ on the Bach.de website
- BWV 33 Alone to you, Herr Jesu Christ Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Free scores of Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christoph Wolff : Chorale Cantatas from the cycle of the Leipzig / church cantatas, 1724-25 (III) (PDF), bach-cantatas.com, 2000, p. 9 (accessed on August 28, 2012).
- ↑ Alone to you, Herr Jesu Christ / Text and Translation of Chorale . bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ a b John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity / Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt (PDF; 127 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d Klaus Hofmann: alone to you, Herr JesuChrist, BWV 33 / In you alone, Lord Jesus Christ (PDF; 4.1 MB) bach-cantatas.com. 2002. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Alone to you, Herr Jesu Christ . bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ a b Julian Mincham: Chapter 13 BWV 33 Only to you, Lord Jesus Christ . jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
- ↑ digitized version
