Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93

If only the good Lord can exercise ( BWV 93) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote it in Leipzig for the 5th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on July 9, 1724 for the first time. She is a chorale cantata in his second annual cycle and based on the song Who can exercise by Georg Neumark only the love God.

History and words

Bach composed the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the 5th Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings were as epistle 1 Peter 3.8 to 15 LUT, " Sanctify Christ in your hearts " and the Gospel Lk 5:1-11 LUT, the great fishing of Simon Peter.

The cantata is based on the consolation song in seven stanzas Who only the good Lord can exercise, the Georg Neumark wrote about 1641 and probably set to music. It was first published in his collection Fortgepflantzter musical- poetic fancy forest in Jena in 1657. The song refers in general terms to the readings. An unknown poet kept in a symmetrical arrangement, the first, fourth and last verse literally in and worked the rest of the verses to the same number of recitatives and arias. In the recitatives 2 and 5, he expanded the lyrics to free formulations, while he built a hint to the Gospel in Theorem 5.

Bach led the cantata on 9 July 1724 for the first time. From the first performance only the continuo voices of the first four sets are obtained. Manuscripts of the entire cantata comes from a later performance for 1732/33, therefore, is not sure if the cantata from the beginning had the same structure.

Scoring and structure

The cantata is staffed with four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, four-part choir, two oboes, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

Music

In the central duet violins and violas play the chorale melody. Bach edited this sentence later to one of his Schübler Chorales, BWV 647

The opening chorus is a concerto of three ensembles: the orchestra, dominated by the two oboes, plays an introduction and refrains, the cantus firmus is in the soprano, the lower voices begin before the soprano insert each row and continue to sing during the contract note.

Sentences 2 and 5 are similar in their exchange between the slightly ornamented chorale melody and recitative.

In the first aria Bach used a motif that turns the top of the chorale melody to major to express trust in God. The cantata ends with a simple four -part harmony.

Recordings

  • J. S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 93 & BWV 131 Hans Thamm, Windsbacher Boys Choir, Consortium Musicum, Teresa Zylis - Gara, Ingeborg soot, Peter Schreier, Franz Crass, EMI Electrola 1966
  • Bach Cantatas Vol 3 - Ascension Day, Whitsun, Trinity, Karl Richter, Munich Bach Choir, Munich Bach Orchestra, Edith Mathis, Anna Reynolds, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, Archiv Produktion 1975
  • The Bach Cantata Vol 14, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Arleen Augér, Ann Murray, Adalbert Kraus, Walter Held wine, Haenssler 1979
  • J. S. Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol 5, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tölz Boys Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, soloist of the Tölz Boys Choir, Paul Esswood, Kurt Equiluz, Ruud van der Meer, Teldec 1979
  • J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 21, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Deborah York, Franziska Gottwald, Paul Agnew, Klaus Mertens, Antoine Marchand 2000
  • J. S. Bach: Cantatas for the Complete Liturgical Year Vol 5, Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande, Siri Thornhill, Petra Noskaiová, Christoph Genz, Jan van der crabbing, Accent 2005
Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis First Epistle of Peter Gospel (liturgy) Bass (voice type) Ritornello Windsbacher Knabenchor Karl Richter (conductor) Anna Reynolds (singer) Werner Neumann Christoph Wolff Integrated Authority File 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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