Take from us, Lord, you faithful God
| Bach cantata | |
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| Take from us, Lord, you faithful God | |
| BWV: | 101 |
| Occasion: | 10th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1724 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Cn 3Tb Ft 2Ob Ot Oc 2Vl Va Bc |
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| List of Bach cantatas | |
Take from us, Lord, you faithful God ( BWV 101) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for the 10th Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on August 13, 1724.
Story and words
Bach composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for the 10th Sunday after Trinity in his second cantata cycle. The prescribed readings for Sunday were 1 Cor 12 : 1–11 LUT , various gifts, but one spirit, and Lk 19 : 41–48 LUT , Jesus proclaimed the destruction of Jerusalem and drives the traders out of the temple. The cantata text is based on the seven stanzas of Martin Moller's Choral (1584), which he wrote during a plague epidemic as a rewording of the Latin poem Aufer immensam (1541). The chorale is sung to the melody of Martin Luther's Father Our in the Kingdom of Heaven . The unknown poet kept the words in the outer stanzas 1 and 7. He worked the ideas of verses 2, 4 and 6 into arias. He kept stanzas 3 and 5 as they were, but added recitatives to them . The cantata text only relates generally to the readings, unlike the cantata in the previous year, look and see if there is any pain that the lament for Jerusalem drew from the lamentations . In sentence 2, however, the poet referred to the destruction of Jerusalem: "That we do not perish by sinfully doing like Jerusalem!"
Occupation and structure
The cantata stands out because of its rich wind instrumentation. It is made up of four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , a four-part choir, which is reinforced by a trombone choir made of zinc and three trombones , flauto traverso (in the first version), two oboes , oboe da caccia , waist, two violins , Viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: Take from us, Lord, you faithful God
- Aria (tenor): Do not act according to your rights
- Recitativo e chorale (soprano): Oh! Lord God, by your faithfulness
- Aria (bass): Why do you want to be so angry?
- Recitativo e chorale (tenor): Sin has ruined us very much
- Aria (soprano, alto): Commemoration of Jesus' bitter death
- Chorale: Guide us with your right hand
music
The Doric chorale melody occurs in all movements except the second. The opening choir is a chorale fantasy. The cantus firmus lies line by line in the soprano, prepared in imitation by the lower voices in the manner of a chorale prelude by Johann Pachelbel . A trombone choir amplifies the singing voices. This choral movement is embedded in the "stylus antiquus" in a concert orchestral movement for oboes and strings, which is designed like Bach's instrumental concertos. John Eliot Gardiner notices Bach's disturbing intensification of harmony and vocal expression towards the end of the sentence on the words "for plague, fire and great suffering".
The first aria is accompanied by a virtuoso flute (violin in a later version). The flute part is written for an able player, as in the cantata What I ask about the world , which was performed a week earlier. The two recitatives combine an ornate form of the chorale melody with secco recitative. The central movement begins in three oboes and continuo like a dramatic aria, labeled vivace. But after this “angry ritornello ” the bass begins unexpectedly, andante, with the first line of the chorale stanza in the unchanged words “Why do you want to be so angry?”. In the middle part of the movement, the entire chorale is played instrumentally, while the singing part is performed independently.
Movement 6 combines the two voices, flute and the oboe da caccia, which plays the chorale melody. The cast is similar to the central movement from Bach's St. Matthew Passion , My Savior Wants to Die for Love . The last chorale stanza is simply composed of four voices.
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 47 , Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Aldo Baldin , John Bröcheler , Hänssler 1979
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 6 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Philippe Huttenlocher , Teldec 1980
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 10 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Caroline Stam , Michael Chance , Paul Agnew , Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 1998
- Bach Edition Vol. 20 - Cantatas Vol. 11 , conductor Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir , Netherlands Bach Collegium , Marjon Strijk , Sytse Buwalda , Nico van der Meel , Bas Ramselaar , Brilliant Classics 2000
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 5: Rendsburg / Braunschweig , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Joanne Lunn , Daniel Taylor , Christoph Genz , Gotthold Schwarz , Soli Deo Gloria 2000
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 31 - Cantatas from Leipzig 1724 , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Yukari Nonoshita , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk , Peter Kooij , BIS 2004
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- 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 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig). Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig / Carus, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Take from us, Lord, Faithful God, BWV 101 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 101 Take from us, Lord, you faithful God on bach cantatas website
- Take from us, Lord, you faithful God on the Bach website
- BWV 101 Take from us, Lord, you faithful God on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
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↑ Elke Axmacher, Joachim Stalmann: 146 - Take from us, Lord, you faithful God . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 2 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50321-0 , p. 94–97 ( limited preview in Google Book search). Take from us, Lord, you faithful God / Text and Translation of Chorale. In: bach-cantatas.com. 2005, accessed on August 22, 2011 .
- ^ A b c John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity / Braunschweig Cathedral. (PDF; 116 kB) solideogloria.co.uk, September 9, 2008, accessed on August 22, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Thomas Braatz, Aryeh Oron: Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Our Father in Heaven. In: bach-cantatas.com. June 2016, accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 11 BWV 101 Take from us, Lord, you faithful God. In: jsbachcantatas.com. 2010, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
