It is good for you that I am going

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Bach cantata
It is good for you that I am going
BWV: 108
Occasion: Cantata
Year of origin: 1725
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: Church cantata
Solo : ATB
Choir: SATB
Instruments : 2Oa 2Vl Va Bc
text
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , Paul Gerhardt
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It is good for you that I am going ( BWV 108) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for Cantata on the 4th Sunday after Easter and performed it for the first time on April 29, 1725.

Story and words

In his second year in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for the Sunday Cantata.

The prescribed readings for Sunday were Jak 1,17-21  LUT , "All good gifts come from the Father of Light", and Joh 16,5-15  LUT , Jesus promises the comforter in his 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 second of nine cantatas for the period between Easter and Pentecost based on texts by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , based on You will weep and weep , BWV 103. Bach shortened her text, as in other cantatas. The text begins with a verse from the Gospel. A second quote from the Gospel appears in sentence 4. Sentences 2 and 3 deal with the hope of salvation, sentence 5 is a prayer for guidance until death. To conclude, the poet used the tenth stanza of Paul Gerhardt's song God Father, Send Your Spirit (1653), which expresses faith in God's guidance.

Bach first performed the cantata on April 29, 1725.

Occupation and structure

The cantata is made up of three soloists, alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola , violoncello piccolo and basso continuo .

  1. Basso solo: It is good that I am going
  2. Aria (tenor): I can't be bothered by any doubt
  3. Recitativo (tenor): So your spirit will rule me
  4. Coro: But if that, the spirit of truth will come
  5. Aria (alto): What my heart desires of you
  6. Chorale: Your spirit, given by God from heaven

music

As in the cantata on the same occasion last year, Where are you going? , Bach has the bass sing a verse from the Gospel as Vox Christi in the first movement . As an obligation instrument, the oboe d'amore plays wide-ranging melodies. The movement without a title lies formally between aria and arioso . The following aria is dominated by a virtuoso solo violin. A short secco recitative leads to another quote from the Gospel, which is sung by the choir. The quote appears in three sections, each as a fugue . Since the theme of the third fugue is similar to that of the first, a modified da capo form is created . The movement is motet-like at the same time, as the music follows the words and the instruments predominantly play colla parte with the voices. The first section deals with “But when that one, the spirit of truth, will come”, the second begins “For he will not speak of himself”, the third expresses “and what is to come he will proclaim”. The last aria is accompanied by the strings, dominated by the first violin. The cantata ends with a four-part chorale to the melody of “Come to me, speaks God's son”.

Recordings

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Hofmann: It is good for you that I go away / It is expedient for you that I go away, BWV 108 (PDF; 545 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ Christoph Wolff : The transition between the second and the third yearly cycle of Bach's Leipzig cantatas (1725) ( English , PDF; 129 kB) Retrieved on February 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ God the Father, send your Spirit / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 44: BWV 85, BWV 108 and BWV 87, each coming with a bass aria. ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
  5. ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Come here to me, God's Son speaks ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
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Cantatas not preserved

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Passions

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Oratorios

Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) • Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) • Easter Oratorio (BWV 249)