Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, BWV 32

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 first performed it on 13 January 1726 on.

History and words

Bach wrote the cantata Jesu, my desire in his third year in office in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Epiphany ( Epiphany ). The prescribed readings for this Sunday were Rom. 12:1-6 LUT, the duties of Christians, and Lk 2:41-52 LUT, searching and finding of the twelve year old Jesus in the temple. In his first year in Leipzig Bach had the same occasion in My dearest Jesus, the overall situation of man is considered lost, the lost to Jesus. In his second year in Leipzig, he wrote the chorale cantata my Jesus I will not let a hymn of Christian Keymann.

Bach set to music in Dearest Jesus, my desire a text that the Darmstadt court poet Georg Christian Clay had published in 1711. As a final chorale he added the twelfth and last verse of Paul Gerhardt's hymn " way, my heart, with the idea " to ( 1647). This is to the tune of " Rejoice greatly, o my soul " sung. Bach had a few weeks earlier music a similar work of Clay, the Christmas Cantata Blessed is the man, BWV 57 for the 2nd Christmas.

Clay worked the Gospels text to an allegorical dialogue between Jesus and the soul. Bach arranged in his Concerto in Dialogo ( concert in the dialog), the soprano voice of the soul, while the bass as the Vox Christi, the voice of Jesus, appears even though Jesus is still a child in the Gospel. As Klaus Hofmann points out, the poet uses " the general motives of the action on: losing, searching for Jesus, the recovery, and transmits them to the relationship of the believer to Jesus." The dialogue also refers to medieval mysticism, and on the images of the Song.

Bach led the cantata on 13 January 1726 for the first time.

Scoring and structure

The cantata is chamber music filled with two vocal soloists ( soprano and bass), four-part choir (only in the final chorale ), oboe, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

Music

The dialogue between the characters Jesus ( bass) and soul ( soprano) is the soprano opens with an aria in E minor, accompanied by an obbligato oboe. Julian Mincham differs in the oboe part two ideas in the first five cycles, a striving for the top, then " Girladen " the satisfaction of the desired unity, the last two lines of text speak of: "Oh, my rock, rejoice, you let highly amused embrace ".

The bass responds in a short recitative and da capo aria in B Minor, which is enriched by a lively active solo violin with triplets and trills. The words " troubled spirit " appear every time harmonically and melodically clouded.

In the following dialogue recitative the soul responds with a paraphrase of the beginning of Psalm 84, " How lovely is your dwelling yet ." This psalm set to music both Heinrich Schütz and Johannes Brahms, who used him as a central set in A German Requiem. Bach designed the text as arioso with a pulsating accompaniment in the strings. The two voices sing in this set never the same, only their next duet, a Gavotte, they united and their accompanying instruments oboe and violin. Hofmann describes the set disappear Now all the plagues as " a veritable love duet, as it would have done honor to any opera scene of the time." For four-part choral conclusion, he noted that he leads back the cantata " in the sphere of worship and devotion ."

Recordings

  • J. S. 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 large cantatas by J. S. Bach, Vol 13, Fritz Werner, Heinrich-Schütz -Chor Heilbronn, Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, 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: Cantatas 13 Spiritual & 13 symphonies. Helmut Winschermann, German Bach Soloists and Chorus, Ileana Cotrubas, Hermann Prey. Philips, 1970.
  • JS Bach: The cantatas, Episode 9 - BWV 31-34. Gustav Leonhardt, Hannover Boys Choir, Leonhardt Consort, soloist of the choir boys Hannover, Max van Egmond. Telefunken, 1974.
  • The Bach Cantata, Vol 22, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Arleen Augér, Walter Held wine. 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 Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Johan Zomer, Klaus Mertens. Antoine Marchand, 2002.
  • J. S. Bach - Cantatas. Bernhard Forck, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Christine Schäfer, Peter Kooij, IPPNW -Concerts in 2004
  • JS Bach: Cantatas Vol 42 - BWV 13, 16, 32, 72 Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Rachel Nicholls, Peter Kooij. BIS, 2008.
Georg Christian Lehms Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Christian mysticism Bass (voice type) Knabenchor Hannover Leonhardt-Consort Peter Harvey (baritone) Berlin Philharmonic 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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