Dearest Jesus, my desire
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Dearest Jesus, my desire | |
| BWV: | 32 |
| Occasion: | 1st Sunday after Epiphany |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | SB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Whether 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Georg Christian Lehms , Paul Gerhardt | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Dearest Jesus, my desire ( BWV 32) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the dialogue cantata in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Epiphany and performed it for the first time on January 13, 1726.
Story and words
Bach wrote the cantata Dearest Jesus, my request in his third year in office in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Epiphany (the appearance of the Lord). The prescribed readings for this Sunday were Rom 12.1–6 LUT , the duties of the Christian, and Lk 2.41–52 LUT , searching and finding the twelve year old Jesus in the temple. In his first year in Leipzig, on the same occasion, in My dearest Jesus is lost , Bach considered the general situation of the person who lost Jesus. In his second year in Leipzig he wrote the choral cantata Meinen Jesum ich nicht over a hymn by Christian Keymann .
In Liebster Jesu, my request, Bach set to music a text published by the Darmstadt court poet Georg Christian Lehms in 1711. As the final chorale, he added the twelfth and last stanza of Paul Gerhardt's hymn “Weg, mein Herz, mit den Menschen” (1647). This is sung to the melody of "Be very happy, o my soul". A few weeks earlier, Bach had set a similar work by Lehms to music, the Christmas cantata Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57 for Boxing Day.
Lehms reworked the Gospel text into an allegorical dialogue between Jesus and the soul. In his Concerto in Dialogo (Concert in Dialogue) Bach assigned the soprano voice to the soul, while the bass appears as Vox Christi , the voice of Jesus, although Jesus is still a child in the Gospel. As Klaus Hofmann explains, the poet “takes up the general motives of the event: losing, searching for Jesus, finding again, and transfers them to the relationship of the believer to Jesus”. The dialogue also relates to medieval mysticism and the images of the Song of Songs .
Bach first performed the cantata on January 13, 1726.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of chamber music with two vocal soloists ( soprano and bass ), four-part choir (only in the final chorale), oboe , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Aria (soprano): Dearest Jesus, my desire
- Recitativo (bass): What is it that you wanted me
- Aria (bass): Here in my father's place
- Recitativo (soprano, bass): Oh! holy and great god
- Aria Duetto (soprano, bass): Now all plagues are gone
- Chorale: My God, open the gates for me
music
The dialogue between the characters Jesus (bass) and soul (soprano) is opened by the soprano, with an aria in E minor , accompanied by an obbligato oboe. Julian Mincham distinguishes two ideas in the oboe part, in the first five bars a striving upwards, then “girlads” of satisfaction with the desired unity, of which the last two lines of text speak: “Oh! my hoard, please me, let yourself be embraced most happily. "
The bass answers in a short recitative and a da capo aria in G major , which is enriched by a lively solo violin with triplets and trills. The words "distressed mind" appear harmonious and melodically cloudy every time.
In the following dialogue-recitative the soul answers with a paraphrase of the beginning of Psalm 84 , "How lovely is your apartment". Both Heinrich Schütz and Johannes Brahms set this psalm to music , who used it as the central movement in Ein deutsches Requiem . Bach designs the text as an arioso with a pulsating accompaniment of the strings. The two voices never sing at the same time in this movement, only their following duet, a gavotte , unites them and their accompanying instruments oboe and violin. Hofmann describes the sentence Now all plagues are disappearing as "a veritable love duet, as it would have done any opera scene of the time credit". As for the four-part final chorale, he remarks that he is bringing the cantata back "into the sphere of devotional worship".
Recordings
- JS Bach: Cantatas No. 140, No. 32. Hermann Scherchen , Vienna Academy Chamber Choir , Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera , Magda László, Alfred Poell . Westminster / Archipelago, 1952.
- The great cantatas by JS Bach, Vol. 13 , Fritz Werner , Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Pforzheimer Kammerorchester , Agnes Giebel , Barry McDaniel . Erato , 1963.
- JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 32 & BWV 39. Wolfgang Gönnenwein , South German Madrigal Choir , Consortium Musicum , Edith Mathis , Franz Crass . EMI , 1965.
- Bach: 13 sacred cantatas & 13 symphonies. Helmut Winschermann , German Bach soloists and choir, Ileana Cotrubas , Hermann Prey . Philips , 1970.
- JS Bach: The Cantata Work, Volume 9 - BWV 31–34. Gustav Leonhardt , Boys Choir Hanover , Leonhardt Consort , Soloist of the Boys Choir Hanover, Max van Egmond . Telefunken , 1974.
- The Bach Cantata, Vol. 22. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Walter Heldwein. Hänssler, 1981.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 18: Weimar / Leipzig / Hamburg / For Christmas Day & for Epiphany / For the 1st Sunday after Epiphany. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Claron McFadden , Peter Harvey . Soli Deo Gloria 2000.
- Bach Edition Vol. 18 - Cantatas Vol. 9. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton, Bas Ramselaar. Brilliant Classics , 2000.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 17. Sound Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Johannette Zomer, Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 2002.
- JS Bach - Cantatas. Bernhard Forck , members of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Christine Schäfer , Peter Kooij , IPPNW-Concerts 2004
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 42 - BWV 13, 16, 32, 72. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Rachel Nicholls , Peter Kooij . UNTIL 2008.
- JS Bach: Dialog Cantatas for Soprano & Bass - BWV 32, 57, 58 with Hana Blažíková , Dominik Wörner , Kirchheimer BachConsort under the direction of Alfredo Bernardini. cpo, 2016.
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 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas JSBachs . 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
- Dearest Jesus, my desire (BWV 32) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 32 Dearest Jesus, my desire. at Bach Cantatas (English) history, instrumentation, sources for text and music, translations into several languages, recordings and discussion
- Dearest Jesus, my request on the private website bach.de
- BWV 32 Dearest Jesus, my request Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Dearest Jesus, my request : recording by the Nederlandse Bachvereniging (video and background information), conductor: Jos van Veldhoven
- Free scores of Liebster Jesu in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Alfred Dürr : The cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach , 4th edition, Volume 1, Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, 1981, ISBN 3-423-04080-7 , pp. 178-179.
- ↑ a b Christoph Wolff : For the third Leipzig cantatas year (1725–1727), II (PDF) 2002, pp. 13–14 (accessed on January 8, 2013).
- ↑ Weg, my heart, with the thoughts / text and translation of the chorale ( s ) bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Rejoice very much, o my soul ( s ) bach-cantatas.com. 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b c John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany / Hauptkirche St. Jacobi, Hamburg ( en , PDF; 169 kB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 13-14. 2010. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Klaus Hofmann : Dearest Jesus, my desire, BWV 32 (PDF; 2.1 MB) bach-cantatas.com. Pp. 14-15. 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Julian Mincham: Chapter 11: BWV 32 "Dearest Jesus, my desire" ( en ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
