I will not leave my Jesus, BWV 124
Bach cantata | |
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I do not leave my Jesus | |
BWV: | 124 |
Occasion: | 1st Sunday after Epiphany |
Year of origin: | 1725 |
Place of origin: | Leipzig |
Genus: | Choral cantata |
Solo : | SATB |
Choir: | SATB |
Instruments : | Co Oa 2Vl Va Bc |
text | |
Christian Keimann , unknown poet | |
List of Bach cantatas |
I will not leave my Jesus ( BWV 124) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the chorale cantata, which is based on the song of the same name by Christian Keimann , in Leipzig for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany and performed it for the first time on January 7, 1725.
Story and words
In his second year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the first Sunday after Epiphany (apparition of the Lord). The prescribed readings for 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. Last year, on the same occasion, in My dearest Jesus is lost , Bach considered the situation of the person who lost Jesus. This cantata text is based on the chorale in six stanzas by Christian Keymann (1658). As in the work of the previous year, the chorale text begins with a parallel to the Gospel: the believer does not want to lose Jesus, just as the parents of the twelve-year-old did not want to lose him. In the further course of the chorale follows the idea of being connected to Jesus after death. The unknown lyricist retained the wording of the first and last stanzas and composed the remaining stanzas into as many alternating recitatives and arias . Bach first performed the cantata on January 7, 1725, one day after Dearest Immanuel, Duke of the Pious at Epiphany.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, horn to reinforce the soprano in the chorale, oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: I will not leave my Jesus
- Recitativo (tenor): As long as there is a drop of blood
- Aria (tenor): And if the hard death blow
- Recitativo (bass): Oh yes! what a grave trouble
- Aria (soprano, alto): Quickly withdraw, my heart, from the world
- Chorale: I will not leave Jesus from me
music
In the opening chorus soprano and horn wear line at the cantusfirmus ago, a melody of Andreas Hammerschmidt , who worked with Keymann The lower voices are predominantly homophonic performed while the orchestra own thematic material used in foreplay, interludes and accompaniment. The movement has the character of a minuet , with the oboe d'amore playing a leading role in concert. The phrase “to stick to him like a velvet” is illustrated by a “sticky” tone held for three bars in the lower voices. A short secco recitative leads to a tenor aria accompanied by the oboe, while the strings express "fear and terror" through a "drumming" motif of repeated fast notes. Alfred Dürr compares this motif with a similar figure in the alto recitative “Why do you want to be scared”, movement 49 in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Part VI . In another secco recitative, the words "after the run" is illustrated by an ascending run over an octave . A duet of soprano and alto, accompanied only by continuo, resembles a dance divided into uniform sections of four bars. The cantata is concluded by the last stanza of the chorale in four-part movement.
Recordings
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 1 - Advent and Christmas , Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Lotte Schädle , Hertha Töpper , Ernst Haefliger , Theo Adam , archive production 1967
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 21 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Aldo Baldin , Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1980
- JS Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 7 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Kurt Equiluz , Thomas Thomaschke , Teldec 1980
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 18: Berlin / Weimar / Leipzig / Hamburg / For Christmas Day & for Epiphany / For the 1st Sunday after Epiphany , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Claron McFadden , Michael Chance , James Gilchrist , Peter Harvey , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Lisa Larsson , Annette Markert , Christoph Prégardien , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 2000
- Bach Edition Vol. 20 - Cantatas Vol. 11 , Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Ruth Holton , Sytse Buwalda , Knut Schoch , Bas Ramselaar , Brilliant Classics 1999
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 32 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , Andreas Weller , Peter Kooij , BIS 2005
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by 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 . Leipzig: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig), ISBN 3-89948-073-2
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- I will not leave my Jesus, BWV 124 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 124 I do not leave my Jesus on the bach-cantatas website
- I don't leave my Jesus on the Bach.de website
- BWV 124 I do not leave my Jesus text, structure, cast, at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ I will not leave my Jesus / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / I don't leave my Jesus ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany / Hauptkirche St. Jacobi, Hamburg ( English , PDF; 156 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2012.