Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren, BWV 154

My dearest Jesus is lost ( BWV 154) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1724 for the Sunday after Epiphany, January 9, 1724.

History and words

Bach led the cantata in his first year in Leipzig on Epiphany ( Epiphany ), January 9, 1724 at. The musicologist Alfred Dürr thought that it was already written in Weimar, while John Eliot Gardiner supports this view for the sets 1, 4 and 7. The prescribed readings were Romans 12:1-6 and Luke 2:41-52 LUT LUT, the 12- year-old Jesus in the temple. The unknown librettist takes the search of parents for her lost son as an opportunity to present in the first two sets, the situation of the Christian who has lost his Jesus and him looking in vain. Clause 3 is a chorale, the second stanza of Martin Jahn Jesus, my souls delight, Jesus asks to return. Set of 4 repeated the request in a personal aria. The answer is given by the Vox Christi ( voice of Christ ) in the words of the Gospel "Know ye not that I must be about, which is my father? " The joy of rediscovery presses a paraphrase of Song of Songs 2.8 LUT from: " the voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping across the mountains, skipping over the hills. " This cantata ends with verse 6 of Christian Keymanns Choral my Jesus I'll not leave.

Scoring and structure

How cantatas during the Weimar period is the work of chamber music filled with three soloists, alto, tenor and bass, four-part chorus in the chorales, two oboe d' amore, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

Music

In the three arias Bach makes extreme emotions is: desperate sadness, longing and delight. The first aria, he puts a ostinato bass figure, comparable with the chorus weeping, wailing, Fearing, Hesitating. Only the violin, then the tenor submit an expressive melody she repeated several times. The contrasting middle section is underlined with string tremolos in bold harmonies. The second aria is accompanied by two oboi d' amore and strings in unison, without continuo. Similar to the soprano aria from Love My Savior wants to die from Bach's St. Matthew Passion describes the lack of foundation fragility and innocence. The joy of finding reflected in a duet of alto and tenor in homophonic third - and sixth - parallels. It is in three parts, the third part is not a da capo of the first, but includes in fast 3/8-time.

Theorem 3 is a four-part set of Johann Schops melody career perk, my mind (1642 ), who became famous as part of Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life, and the stream in sentence 40 of his St. Matthew Passion. The final chorale is a four-part set of Andreas Hammerschmidt my Jesus I will not let ( 1658).

Recordings

Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Bass (voice type) Doctrine of the affections Homophony Peter Harvey (baritone) Peter Kooy BIS Records 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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