Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109
I believe, dear Lord, help my unbelief! ( BWV 109) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the 21th Sunday after Trinity, 17 October 1723.
History and words
Bach wrote the cantata in his first year in Leipzig for the 21th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on for the first time on October 17, 1723.
The prescribed readings were Eph 6:10-17 Jn 4.46 to 54 LUT and LUT, the healing of the son of a Royal. The unknown librettist emphasizes the faith that is mentioned in the Gospel as a condition of healing. The opening chorus music a Bible passage from a similar context, Mk 9,26 LUT, healing a possessed boy. The following sentences contain a dialogue between faith and unbelief, hope and fear, as it brook three weeks later in O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, composed and for Easter 1724 in Rejoice, her heart. Sentence 2 is a dialogue, sentence 3 expresses fear that sets 4 and 5 call for hope. The final chorale is the seventh stanza of through Adam's fall is quite corrupted by Lazarus Spengler ( 1524).
Scoring and structure
The cantata is set for alto and tenor soloists, four -part choir, Cor du Chasse ( corno da caccia ), two oboes, two violins, viola and basso continuo. The Cor du Chasse is perhaps the instrument corno di tirarsi that a week earlier at the revival of the Weimar cantata Ach! I see itzt was used because I go to the wedding. The voice is not included in the score. In the opening chorus it reinforces usually the first violin, in the final chorale cantus firmus in the soprano.
Music
The opening chorus contains many elements of a concerto grosso. In ritornello Oboe and Violin 1 1 form the concertino. The voices occur singly, on a duet and four voices. The belief is expressed in an ascending motif, which is derived from the theme of the ritornello, unbelief. Downward by a leading figure
The inner dialogue in recitative is indicated by alternating between forte and piano one vote, not two different voices. The anxious last question Oh Lord, how long? is as Arioso, adagio, intensified. The following aria in torn lines and continuous dotted rhythm was compared with the aria Oh, my sense of Bach's St. John Passion.
The final chorale is not a simple four-part set, but a chorale fantasy, as they often put Bach at the beginning of the chorale cantatas of his second cantata cycle later. Nestled in a symphonic orchestra sings the soprano, amplified by the horn, the lines of the chorale through Adam's fall is all corrupt in long note values , while the lower voices are moving out.
Recordings
- The Bach Cantata Vol 56 Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Gabriele terror Bach, Kurt Equiluz. Hänssler (LP ), 1971.
- JS Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol 6 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tölz Boys Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, Paul Esswood, Kurt Equiluz. Teldec, 1980.
- The Bach Cantata Vol 56 Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Hildegard Laurich, Kurt Equiluz. Hänssler (CD ), 1981.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 8 Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Bogna Bartosz, Jorg Dürmüller. Antoine Marchand, 1994.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol 14 - Cantatas from Leipzig in 1723, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Robin Blaze, Gerd Türk, AND 2000
- Bach Cantatas Vol 11 John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, William Towers, Paul Agnew. Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- I believe, dear Lord, help my unbelief. Rudolf Lutz, choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation, Michi Gaigg; Ruth Sandhoff, Bernhard Berchtold. Suzette Sandor ( reflection). DVD. Gallus Media, 2010.