Lord, as you will, be with me
Bach cantata | |
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Lord, as you will, be with me | |
BWV: | 73 |
Occasion: | 3rd Sunday after Epiphany |
Year of origin: | 1724 |
Place of origin: | Leipzig |
Genus: | cantata |
Solo : | STB |
Choir: | SATB |
Instruments : | Co Ob 2Vl Va Bc |
text | |
unknown | |
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Lord, as you will, so schicks mit mir ( BWV 73) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1724 for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany and performed it for the first time on January 23, 1724.
Story and words
In his first year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany and performed it for the first time on January 23, 1724. The prescribed readings were Rom 12,17-21 LUT and Mt 8,1-13 LUT , the healing of a leper. The unknown lyricist takes the sick person's words “Lord, if you want, you can cleanse me” as a starting point for the recommendation to maintain this trusting attitude even in the face of death. In the first movement he adds three recitatives with me between the lines of the first stanza of Kaspar Bienemann's chorale Herr, as you like . The final chorale is the last stanza of Ludwig Helmbold's From God I will not give up .
Bach performed the cantata again in a revised version on January 21, 1748 or January 26, 1749.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is occupied by three soloists, soprano , tenor and bass , four-part choir in the chorales, horn (replaced by the organ in the revised version ), two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Chorale e recitativo (tenor, bass, soprano): Lord, as you will, be with me
- Aria (tenor, oboe): Oh, lower the spirit of joy
- Recitativo (bass): Oh, our will stays wrong,
- Aria (bass): Lord, if you will
- Chorale: That is the father's will
music
The opening chorus is based on the first stanza of Herr, as you will, send it to me , expanded by extensive recitatives by the three soloists. A four-tone motif on the words "Lord, as you will" is introduced by the horn and repeated throughout the piece. The accompagnato recitatives of all three soloists are accompanied by the oboes with material from the ritornello , while the horn and strings repeat the head motif here as well. The choir throws this motif into the last repetition of the ritornello and one last time in a final cadenza.
In sentence 3 the human will is described as contradicting, "sometimes defiant, sometimes despondent", and depicted accordingly in the melody, first up and then down in a leap. Movement 4 then begins immediately, without a ritornello. Three stanzas begin with the words "Lord, if you will". They are executed as free variations and concluded by a coda . As in the first sentence, a motif pervades the words "Lord, if you will". It is the beginning of the aria Are you with me from the little music book for Anna Magdalena Bach by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , which was long ascribed to Bach.
The final chorale has four voices and uses the melody known as "Une jeune Pucelle" or "Une jeune Fillette" and "La Monica", which was first published in 1557 by Jehan Chardavoine in Lyon.
Recordings
- CD
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 - Cantatas II. Günther Ramin , St. Thomas Choir , Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig , soprano soloist of the St. Thomas Choir, Hans-Joachim Rotzsch , Hans Hauptmann . Eterna, 1954.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 23. Helmuth Rilling , Figural Choir of the Stuttgart Memorial Church , Bach Collegium Stuttgart , Magdalene Schreiber , Adalbert Kraus , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1971.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 4. Gustav Leonhardt , Hanover Boys Choir , Collegium Vocale Gent , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , soprano soloist of the Hanover Boys Choir, Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Teldec , 1977.
- JS Bach: Cantatas. Philippe Herreweghe , Collegium Vocale Gent , Barbara Schlick , Howard Crook , Peter Kooij . Virgin Classics, 1990.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 10. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Caroline Stam , Paul Agnew , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1998.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the 3rd Sunday of Epiphany. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Joanne Lunn , Julian Podger , Stephen Varcoe . Archive production, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 17. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Gerd Türk , Peter Kooij . UP TO 2002.
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol. 8. Sigiswald Kuijken , La Petite Bande , Gerlinde Sämann , Petra Noskaiová , Christoph Genz , Jan van der Crabben . Accent, 2008.
- DVD
- "Lord, as you will, send it with me". Cantata BWV 73. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Susanne Frei , Makato Sakurada , Markus Volpert . Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Angelika Overath . Gallus Media, 2011.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas JSBachs , 1947, 5. Auf. 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas . Leipzig: Evangelical publishing company; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verl.)
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006 ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 38 BWV 73 My God, how long, oh long ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ↑ [ http://www.bach-cantatas.com/CM/Von-Gott-will-ich-nicht- Lassen.htm Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Von Gott ich nicht Lassen] ( English ) bach-cantatas .com. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
Web links
- Lord, as you will, send it with me, BWV 73 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 73 Lord, as you will, send it with me at bach-cantatas.com (English)
- Lord, as you will, send it to me on the Bach website
- BWV 73 Sir, as you will, send me the text, structure and composition on Walter F. Bischof's personal homepage at the University of Alberta