So far you have not asked anything in my name
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| So far you have not asked anything in my name | |
| BWV: | 87 |
| Occasion: | Rogate |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Ob 2Oc 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , Heinrich Müller | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
So far you have not asked anything in my name ( BWV 87) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for Rogate on the 5th Sunday after Easter and performed it for the first time on May 6th, 1725.
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the Sunday Rogate.
The prescribed readings for Sunday were Jak 1,22-27 LUT , "doer of the word, not just hearer", and Joh 16,23-30 LUT , "prayers are heard" from the farewell speeches. In his second year in Leipzig, Bach had composed choral cantatas between the first Sunday after Trinity and Palm Sunday , but had returned to free text cantatas at Easter, perhaps because a lyricist was no longer available.
It is the third of nine cantatas for the period between Easter and Pentecost based on texts by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler . Like other cantatas from this period, the text begins with a verse from the Gospel. The poet interprets this verse as a reproach. At the end of the first recitative , another verse from the Gospel is repositioned. A second literal quotation from the Bible appears in sentence 5. It is prepared by a recitative that is not part of the printed edition. Alfred Dürr suspects that Bach wrote his text himself to enable a better transition. The poet chose the ninth stanza of Heinrich Müller's song Selig ist die Seele (1659) as the final chorale .
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of three soloists, alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir only in the final chorale, two oboes , two oboe da caccia , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Arioso (bass): So far you haven't asked anything on my behalf
- Recitativo (old): O word that frightens mind and soul
- Aria (old): Forgive, father, our guilt
- Recitativo (tenor): When our guilt rises to heaven
- Arioso (bass): In the world you are scared
- Aria (tenor): I want to suffer, I want to be silent
- Chorale: Do I have to be sad?
music
As in the cantata on the same occasion last year, Truly, Truly, I tell you (BWV 86), Bach in the first movement lets the bass sing a verse from the Gospel as Vox Christi . The formally free piece without a title is accompanied by the orchestra, with the oboes doubling the string parts. It resembles a fugue in that the instruments begin imitating and the voice sings a similar theme . A secco recitative leads to an alto aria in which two obbligato oboes da caccia illustrate the prayer for forgiveness with numerous motifs of sighs. The second recitative is accompanied by the strings and ends in an arioso to the words “Drum seek to comfort me”. The consolation follows in a further quotation from a Jesus word from the Gospel, again recited by Bass: “In the world you are afraid; but be confident, I have overcome the world ”. The music is very serious, the singing voice is only accompanied by continuo. The phrase includes passion as the price of consolation. In response, the last aria expresses joy in suffering. Their pastoral mood with dotted rhythms in 12/8 time was compared to the sinfonia that introduces Part II of Bach's Christmas Oratorio . The cantata closes with a four-part chorale to the melody of Jesus, my joy by Johann Crüger .
Recordings
- Les Grandes Cantates de JS Bach Vol. 5 , Fritz Werner, Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Pforzheimer Kammerorchester , Hertha Töpper , Helmut Krebs , Franz Kelch , Erato 1959
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 2 - Easter , Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Anna Reynolds , Peter Schreier , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , archive production 1974
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk · Complete Cantatas · Les Cantates, episode / vol. 22 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Ruud van der Meer , Teldec 1977
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 34 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Julia Hamari , Aldo Baldin , Walter Heldwein, Hänssler 1981
- Bach Edition Vol. 8 - Cantatas Vol. 3 , Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Sytse Buwalda, Nico van der Meel, Bas Ramselaar, Brilliant Classics 1999
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 25: Dresden / Sherborne / For the 5th Sunday after Easter (Rogate) / For the Sunday after Ascension Day (Exaudi) , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Robin Tyson, Steve Davisilim, Stephan Loges, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 15 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz, Jörg Dürmüller , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 2000
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 35 , Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooij , BIS 2006
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 . 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 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig)
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- So far you have not asked anything in my name, BWV 87 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 87 So far you have not asked anything in my name from Bach Cantatas (English)
- So far you have not asked anything in my name on the Bach.de website
- BWV 87 So far you have not asked anything in my name. It is good that I am going Text, structure, cast, at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christoph Wolff : The transition between the second and the third yearly cycle of Bach's Leipzig cantatas (1725) ( English , PDF; 130 kB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 2-4. 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : For the Fifth Sunday after Easter (Rogate) / Annenkirche, Dresden ( English , PDF; 129 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ↑ a b Julian Mincham: Chapter 44: BWV 85, BWV 108 and BWV 87, each coming with a bass aria. ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ↑ Blessed is the soul / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ↑ a b Klaus Hofmann: So far you have not asked anything in my name, BWV 87 (Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name) ( English , PDF; 1.4 MB) Retrieved on May 10, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Jesu, Meine Freude ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
