In dire need I cry to you, BWV 38
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I cry out to you in distress | |
| BWV: | 38 |
| Occasion: | 21st Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 4Tb 2Ob 2Vn Va Bc |
| text | |
| Martin Luther , anon. | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Out of deep need I scream to you , BWV 38 , is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the choral cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on October 29, 1724. The cantata is based in lyrics and melody to the hymn Out of the depths I cry to you , in the Martin Luther to Psalm 130 nachdichtete.
Story and words
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Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig in 1724 as part of his second cantata cycle for all occasions of the church year, which he planned as a cycle of choral cantatas based on the songs assigned to the occasions by the Lutheran Church. He started the cycle on the first Sunday after Trinity and wrote this cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for Sunday were Eph 6.10–17 LUT , “Take hold of the armor of God”, and John 4.46–54 LUT , the healing of the son of a royal.
The cantata is based on the text and melody of Luther's penance song “Out of deep need I cry to you”, a repositioning of Psalm 130. In Bach's time, it was a main song for Sunday. The lyrics of the first and last verses are unchanged and were designed by Bach as usual as an opening chorale fantasy and a four-part final chorus. An unknown lyricist formulated the remaining three stanzas into four movements, alternating recitative and aria . Bach conducted the first performance of the cantata on October 29, 1724.
Occupation and structure
Bach composed the cantata in six movements for four voices, four trombones, two oboes, two violins, viola and basso continuo . The instruments play colla parte with the singing parts in the style of Bach's motets .
- Choral fantasy: Out of deep need I scream to you
- Recitative (Alto): In Jesus' grace becomes alone
- Aria (tenor): I hear in the middle of suffering
- Recitative (soprano): Oh! That my faith is still so weak
- Trio (S, A, B): When my tribulation than with chains
- Chorale: Whether there is a lot of sins with us
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas Johann Sebastian Bach. 5th unchanged edition. Breitkopf Haertel, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas. Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt et al., Leipzig et al. 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ( Edition Bach Archive Leipzig ).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- In dire need I scream to you, BWV 38 : Notes and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 38 Out of deep need I am shouting to you text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Out of deep need I cry to you BWV 38; BC A 152 / choral cantata (21st Sunday after Trinity) bachdigital.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Christoph Wolff : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician . Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-393-32256-9 , pp. 278-279.
- ^ A b Aryeh Oron: Cantata BWV 38 Out of deep need I cry to you . Bach Cantatas. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
- ↑ Out of deep need I cry to you (Psalm 130) / Text and Translation of Chorale . Bach Cantatas. 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / I cry out to you out of deep need . Bach Cantatas. 2006. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- ^ A b Alfred Dürr, Richard DP Jones: The Cantatas of JS Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text . Oxford University Press , 2006, pp. 601-604.
- ↑ a b Walter F. Bischof: 38 Out of deep need I cry to you . University of Alberta . Retrieved October 13, 2015.
