I have in God's heart and mind
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I have in God's heart and mind | |
| BWV: | 92 |
| Occasion: | Septuagesimae |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Choral cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Oa 2Vl Va Bc |
| AD : | approx. 30 min |
| text | |
| Paul Gerhardt , unknown | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
I have in God's heart and mind ( BWV 92) is a choral cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach from his second Leipzig cantatas year. The cantata is based on Paul Gerhardt's hymn from 1647 I gave up my heart and mind in God's heart and mind . Bach performed it for the first time on January 28, 1725. With its nine movements, both text and music, it is one of Bach's more extensive cantatas.
Story and words
In his second year in office in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the Sunday Septuagesimae, the third Sunday before Ash Wednesday. The prescribed readings were 1 Cor 9.24 LUT - 1 Cor 10.5 LUT , “race for victory”, and Mt 20.1–16 LUT , the parable of the workers in the vineyard . In the previous year, Bach had composed for the occasion Take what is yours and go there .
The cantata is based on Paul Gerhardt's hymn in twelve stanzas from 1647 I have in God's heart and mind that is always sung to the melody of What my God wants, that g'scheh . The theme of the song is trust in God even in adverse circumstances and submission to his will.
While in many chorale cantatas only the first and last song stanzas are retained in their wording, an unknown librettist used five stanzas in this cantata: stanza 1 for sentence 1, stanza 2 for sentence 2, stanza 5 for sentence 4, stanza 10 for sentence 7 , and verse 12 for the last movement 9. He rewrote ideas from verse 4 for an aria as movement 3, used suggestions from verses 6 and 8 for a recitative as movement 5, used ideas from verse 9 for movement 6, and from Verse 11 for sentence 8. In sentences 2 and 7 he enriched the literally quoted song verse with recitative insertions, but without going into the gospel.
Bach performed the cantata for the first time on January 28, 1725 in Leipzig . The score and parts of this performance have been preserved.
Occupation and structure
The cantata consists of four vocal soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: I have in God's heart and mind
- Recitativo e chorale (bass): I can never miss it!
- Aria (tenor): See, see! how tears, how breaks, how falls
- Choral: There is also wisdom and understanding
- Recitativo (tenor): We don't want to hesitate any longer
- Aria (bass): The roar of the rough winds
- Recitativo (bass, tenor, alto, soprano) e chorale (chorus): Well, my God, that's how I fall for you - that's how the God-serene spirit speaks
- Aria (soprano): I remain true to my shepherd
- Chorale: Should I then also death's way
music
Klaus Hofmann remarks that the choice of the song is unusual because it has the same melody as the basis of the cantata from the previous week, Was mein Gott wants, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111 . In the opening choir, the soprano sings the melody as a cantus firmus in long notes. It is embedded in a concerto of the orchestra, in which the lower voices also adopt motifs from the instruments. The musicologist Julian Mincham describes the shimmering, transparent beauty of the movement.
Bach succeeds in making the five movements that quote the song in text and melody completely different. In the bass recitative, the singer alternates between the song melody and the free recitative, which contains many tonal elements. For example, “the mountains and the hills fall with a terrible bang” is represented “in extremely accelerated sequence figures into the depths - very similar to John - and in the St. Matthew Passion with the description of the temple curtain that was torn at Jesus' death”. The tenor aria illustrates the dramatic text, "See, see, how tears, how breaks, how falls", "not only through a downright bizarre melodic contour of the singing voice, but also through a rhythmically discontinuous orchestral composition that is" torn by pauses ". The next chorale verse is sung by the alto to an independent trio of oboes and continuo, which emphasizes the word "sad" with chromatic turns. The message conveyed in this stanza is “He knows the time, place and hour to do and not to”.
The bass aria describes the roaring and storming of the winds, as a symbol for the situation of the Christian, through "incessant movement" in the voice and in the continuo. In the chorale that follows, the song and the recitative alternate again, but this time the song is sung by the four-part choir, with the lines flowing into the soloists' recitative in the sequence bass, tenor, alto and soprano. The last line, “and with the strings muted, I can prepare a new song for the Prince of Peace” leads directly to the following soprano aria, which Bach easily shapes with the pizzicato of the strings and the missing continuo. Oboe d'amore and soprano duet "gracefully dancing", "full of warmth and intimacy". The cantata is concluded with a simple four-part movement.
Recordings
- LP / CD
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 - Cantatas III. Günther Ramin , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester , Erika Burkhardt , Gerda Schriever , Gert Lutze , Hans Hauptmann . Eterna, 1954.
- Les Grandes Cantates de JS Bach Vol. 17. Fritz Werner , Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn , Emiko Iiyama , Barbara Scherler , Theo Altmeyer , Bruce Abel . Erato , 1972.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 2 - Easter. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Edith Mathis , Peter Schreier , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Archive production , 1974.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work, Volume 23 - BWV 91–94. Gustav Leonhardt , Knabenchor Hannover , Collegium Vocale Gent , Leonhardt-Consort , soloist of the Knabenchor Hannover, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Telefunken , 1978.
- The Bach Cantata, Vol. 26. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Gabriele Schreckenbach , Aldo Baldin , Philippe Huttenlocher . Hänssler , 1980.
- Bach Edition Vol. 5 - Cantatas Vol. 2. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton , Sytse Buwalda , Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar . Brilliant Classics, 1999.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 20: Naarden / Southwell / For Septuagesima. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Miah Persson , Wilke te Brummelstroete , James Oxley , Jonathan Brown . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas, Vol. 13. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Deborah York , Franziska Gottwald , Paul Agnew , Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2000.
- JS Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 33 - BWV 41, 92, 130. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , Jan Kobow , Dominik Wörner . UP, 2005.
- DVD
- Johann Sebastian Bach: I have God's heart and mind. Cantata BWV 92. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Alexandra Rawohl (alto), Julius Pfeifer (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Andreas Köhler. Gallus Media, 2017.
Web links
- Cantata BWV 92 “I have God's heart and mind” : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 92 In God's heart and mind I have text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Free scores of I in God's heart and mind in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
- Paul Gerhardt's lyrics at Zeno.org
- Amen say about life / Musica Sacra series (22): Cantata “I have in God's heart and mind” by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Evang. Sunday paper for Bavaria , May 22, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ I have in God's heart and mind / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Was mein Gott wants, das g'scheh allzeit ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Klaus Hofmann : I have in God's heart and mind, BWV 92 (PDF; 523 kB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 13-14. 2005. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
- ^ Alfred Dürr : The cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach , Volume 1. Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1971, pp. 204–207, OCLC 523584 .
- ↑ a b Christoph Wolff : On the choir cantatas year (1724-25) of the Leipzig church cantatas (III) (PDF), bach-cantatas.com, 2000, p. 21 (accessed on January 22, 2013).
- ↑ a b John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Second Sunday after Trinity / Basilique Saint-Denis, Paris ( English , PDF; 120 kB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 5-6. 2009. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 37 BWV 92 Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn / I have, to God's heart and mind (surrendered myself). ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ↑ Booklet ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on May 17, 2017.
