Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13

My sighs, my tears ( BWV 13) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 20 January 1726 on.

History and words

Bach wrote the cantata in his third year in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Epiphany ( Epiphany ). The prescribed readings for the Sunday were 12.6 to 16 Rom LUT, "We have different gifts ," and Jn 2:1-11 LUT, the wedding at Cana. The cantata text is reserved to a yearbook of cantatas by Georg Christian clay taken, which was published in 1711 in Darmstadt. Starting point for the seal is a saying of Jesus from the Gospel: " My hour has not yet come". An allusion to the wedding is set in 4 "God can very easily reverse the wormwood juice into wine of joy ." The text is divided into two sections, the first deals with the despair of a man who feels abandoned by God, the second confident hope in God's help. Both sections are terminated by a chorale, the first through the third stanza of Johann Heermann's "Zion laments with fear and pain," the second by the last verse of Paul Fleming " In all my actions." Alfred Dürr excludes the brevity of the work, that the portions were probably not making music before and after the sermon. Bach led the cantata for the first time on January 20 in 1726.

Scoring and structure

The cantata is unusual instrumentation, set with four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, four-part choir in the final chorale, two recorders, oboe da caccia, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

Music

The cantata begins with an aria, a lament, which is accompanied by recorders and the dark tone of the leading oboe da caccia. She has da capo form, the middle part is again divided into two parts. In it the voice is routed to the words "Road to Death" gradual downward. The following brief secco recitative ends as arioso on the words " plead in vain ." In the woodwind chorale in unison strengthen the cantus firmus of the alto, while the strings independent lively figuration in F major play and thereby express hope, even though the text says that hope is not yet in sight.

A second expressive recitative leads to the second aria, " groans and piteous weeping ." The bass is accompanied by the first violin, which is increasingly brightening up an octave from the recorders. The action of the beginning is illustrated by sighing motifs and tense intervals such as augmented second, diminished fifth and diminished seventh. The refrain consists of two opposing parts, a plaintive and hopeful, which is characterized by lively passages and jumps. In the middle of the text " who sees into heaven " by a octave jump of the singing voice and upwardly mobile runs of the instruments demonstrates in contrary motion to the " road to death " in the first sentence. The cantata is in four-part sentence decided by a hymn to the tune of " O world, I 'll have you " by Heinrich Isaac, which appears twice in Bach's St. Matthew Passion, in the sets of 10 ( I am, I should atone ) and 37 (Who has struck you ) ..

Recordings

  • Bach Cantatas Vol 1 - Advent and Christmas, Karl Richter, Munich Bach Choir, Munich Bach Orchestra, Edith Mathis, Anna Reynolds, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Archiv Produktion 1971
  • J. S. Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol 1, Gustav Leonhardt, Tölz Boys Choir, King's College Choir, Leonhardt Consort, soloist of the Tölz Boys Choir, Paul Esswood, Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond, Teldec 1972
  • The Bach Cantata Vol 23, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Arleen Augér, Carolyn Watkinson, Adalbert Kraus, Walter Held wine, Haenssler 1981
  • Bach Edition Vol 9 - Cantatas Vol 4, Pieter Jan Leusink, Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Knut Schoch, Bas Ramselaar, Brilliant Classics 1999
  • Bach Cantatas Vol 19: Greenwich / Romsey, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Joanne Lunn, Richard Wyn Roberts, Julian Podger, Gerald Finley, Soli Deo Gloria 2000
  • J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 17, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Sandrine Piau, Bogna Bartosz, Paul Agnew, Klaus Mertens, Antoine Marchand 2001
  • J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol 42, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Rachel Nicholls, Robin Blaze, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij, TO 2008
  • J. S. Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol 8: " My sighs, my tears " - Cantatas BWV 13 · 73 · 81 · 144 Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande, Gerlinde sower, Petra Noskaiová, Christoph Genz, Jan van der Crabben, Accent 2008
Georg Christian Lehms Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Bass (voice type) Ritornello Karl Richter (conductor) Anna Reynolds (singer) Leonhardt-Consort 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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