Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101

Take from us, Lord, God of truth ( BWV 101 ) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1724 for the 10th Sunday after Trinity, and led them on August 13, 1724 on.

History 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 the Sunday were 1 Cor 12:1-11 LUT Many things gifts, but one Spirit, and Luke 19.41-48 LUT, Jesus proclaims the destruction of Jerusalem and drives the merchants from the temple. The cantata text is based on the seven verses of Martin Moller's Chorale ( 1584), which he had written during a plague epidemic as a paraphrase of the Latin poem resur immensam (1541 ). The hymn is sung to the tune of Martin Luther's Our Father in heaven. The unknown poet retained the words in the outer stanzas 1 and 7. The ideas of verses 2, 4 and 6, he worked to arias. The verses 3 and 5 he kept in the wording, but he expanded it to inserted recitatives. The cantata text refers only generally to the readings, unlike the cantata in the previous year, behold, and see whether there was any sorrow, which referred the complaint to Jerusalem from Lamentations. However, the poet referred to in sentence 2 to the destruction of Jerusalem: " The fact that we do not pass through sinful actions such as Jerusalem! "

Scoring and structure

The cantata stands out with a rich wind instruments. It is staffed by four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, four-part choir, which is amplified by a brass ensemble of zinc and three trombones, flauto traverso ( in the first version ), two oboes, oboe da caccia, waist, Two Violins, viola and basso continuo.

Music

The Doric chorale melody comes in all sets except before the second. The opening chorus is a chorale fantasy. The cantus firmus is in the soprano line by line, in imitation prepared by the lower voices in the manner of a chorale prelude by Johann Pachelbel. A brass ensemble increases the singing voices. Nestled this choral setting in the "stylus antiquus " in a concertante orchestral writing for oboe and strings, which is designed as the Bach concertos. John Eliot Gardiner Bach noticed disturbing intensification of harmony and vocal expression towards the end of the sentence the words " for epidemics, Feur and great suffering ."

The first aria is accompanied by a virtuoso flute ( in a later version, violin). The flute part is written for a capable player, as in the cantata What I ask of 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 as a dramatic aria, called vivace. But after this " angry ritornello " starts the bass unexpectedly, andante, with the first line of the chorale verse in the unaltered words "Why do you want to be so angry? ". In the middle part of the set of all instrumental chorale is played while the voice is performed independently.

Theorem 6 combined the two voices, flute and oboe da caccia, who plays the chorale melody. The cast is similar to the central movement of Bach 's St. Matthew Passion, For love my Saviour wants to die. The final chorale verse is simply set in four parts.

Recordings

Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis First Epistle to the Corinthians Bass (voice type) Peter Kooy Werner Neumann Christoph Wolff Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3 Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33 Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42 Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68 Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen, BWV 87 Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114 Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121 Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132 Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148 Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162 Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185 Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199 Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a St Mark Passion (Bach)
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