Lord, your eyes are on faith
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Lord, your eyes are on faith | |
| BWV: | 102 |
| Occasion: | 10th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | A, T, B |
| Choir: | S, A, T, B |
| Instruments : | Fl; If; Str; BC |
| text | |
| unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Lord, your eyes look to faith , BWV 102, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , written in Leipzig in 1726 for the tenth Sunday after Trinity , August 25, 1726.
Story and text
The cantata from Bach's third year of cantatas for the tenth Sunday after Trinity was performed for the first time on August 25, 1726 and again around 1737. The prescribed readings are 1 Cor 12.1–11 LUT and Lk 19.41–49 LUT , Jesus mourns over Jerusalem. The cantata text only connects to the readings in general and calls on the soul to immediate penance. Two sentences are based on scriptures, the opening chorus on Jer 5,3 LUT and sentence 4 on Rom 2,4-5 LUT . The cantata ends with stanzas 6 and 7 of the chorale As True I Live, Your God speaks by Johann Heermann (1630). The free poetry was attributed to different authors: CS Terry suggests Christian Weiss, Werner Neumann suggests Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , Walter Blankenburg Christoph Helm.
Cast and structure
The cantata is set for three vocal soloists, alto , tenor and bass , a four-part choir, transverse flute , two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo . It consists of two parts, which were played before and after the sermon. It is unusual that the second part does not begin with the Bible word in sentence 4, but with sentence 5.
- Coro: Lord, your eyes are on faith
- Recitativo (bass): Where is the image that God has impressed on us
- Aria (alto, oboe): woe to the soul that no longer knows the damage
- Arioso (bass): Do you despise the riches of his grace
parte seconda - Aria (tenor, flute): Be frightened, you too sure soul
- Recitativo (alto, oboes): There is danger in waiting
- Chorale: Today you live, today convert
music
The opening chorus is a mature work by Bach, which combines the instrumental and vocal parts in a varied way and interprets the text sections in a meaningful way. The introductory sinfonia consists of two parts that are repeated individually and together. The words Lord, your eyes return three times.
Bach later used the music of the opening choir for the Kyrie of his Missa in G minor . He used two arias (3 and 5) for Qui tollis and Quoniam in the Gloria of his Missa in F major .
The bass part in movement 4, referred to by Bach himself as Arioso , is treated similarly to the voice of Jesus in the Passions . The bass part was also interpreted by singers who are not specialized in baroque music, such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with conductor Benjamin Britten at the Aldeburgh Festival .
The cantata ends with two choral stanzas in a simple four-part setting.
Recordings
- Britten at Aldeburgh (BBC) - Bach: Cantatas 102 & 151. Benjamin Britten , Aldeburgh Festival Singers , English Chamber Orchestra , Janet Baker , Peter Pears , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Decca , 1965.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 47. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Eva Randova, Kurt Equiluz , Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1972.
- Les Grandes Cantates de JS Bach Vol. 27. Fritz Werner , Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn , Barbara Scherler, Theo Altmeyer , Bruce Abel. Erato , 1973.
- 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 , 1977.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 6. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Philippe Huttenlocher . Teldec , 1980.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 5: Rendsburg / Braunschweig. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Daniel Taylor, Christoph Genz , Gotthold Schwarz . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz, James Gilchrist , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2002.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol. 3. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Petra Noskaiova, Christoph Genz , Jan van der Crabben. Accent, 2003.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 46. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij , BIS , 2009.
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 .
- Dietrich Kilian: Bach, you songs. Piano reduction based on the New Bach Edition. 1965.
- 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 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89948-073-2 .
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Cantata BWV 102 Lord, your eyes look to the faith in Bach Cantatas (English)
- Lord your eyes are looking for the Faith, BWV 102 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Lord, your eyes are looking for the faith on the Bach website
- Lord, your eyes are on the faith in All of Bach
- BWV 102 Lord, your eyes are looking for faith on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Alfred Dürr: The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bärenreiter, 1971.
- ↑ Dominic McHugh: The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria 147/150) ( English ) musicalcriticism.com. November 23, 2008. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
- ^ Margaret Steinitz: Latin Church Music ( English ) London Bach Society. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 6, 2010.
- ↑ Benjamin Britten Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
- ↑ George Chien: Bach: Cantatas Vol 5 / Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists ( English ) ArkivMusic. 2008. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
