Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, BWV 32

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Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Beloved Jesus, my desire), BWV 32, is a church cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

It was composed in Leipzig at the end of 1725 or in the first few days of 1726 for the first Sunday after Epiphany, which fell that year on 13 January, date of the work's premiere.

The prescribed readings for the day are Romans 12: 1-6 and Luke 2: 41-52.

The texts are of mixed authorship[1], with Georg Christian Lehms responsible for all movements but the final chorale, for which Bach employed the poetry of Paul Gerhardt[2].

The chorale theme is Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele, which was codified by Louis Bourgeois when setting the Geneva Psalm 42 in his collection of Pseaumes octante trios de David (Geneva, 1551). Bourgeois seems to have been influenced by the secular song Ne l’oseray je dire contained in the Manuscrit de Bayeux published around 1510.

Scoring and structure

The piece is scored for oboe, violins I/II, viola, and basso continuo, along with two vocal soloists (soprano and bass) and four-part choir. Set up as a dialogue between the soul (soprano soloist as Seele) and Jesus (bass soloist), it is in six movements:

  1. Aria: "Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen" for soprano, oboe, strings, and continuo.
  2. Recitativo: "Was ists, dass du mich gesuchet?" for bass and continuo.
  3. Aria: "Hier, in meines Vaters Stätte" for bass, solo violin, and continuo.
  4. Recitativo (dialogue): "Ach! heiliger und großer Gott" for soloists, strings, and continuo.
  5. Duetto: "Nun verschwinden alle Plagen" for soloists, oboe, strings, and continuo.
  6. Chorale: "Mein Gott, öffne mir die Pforten" for choir, oboes, strings, and continuo.

Recordings

References

  1. ^ Christoph Wolff (Eds.): Die Welt der Bach-Kantaten, Metzler/Bärenreiter, Stuttgart und Kassel, 3 Bände Sonderausgabe 2006 ISBN 3-476-02127-0
  2. ^ C. S. Terry and D. Litti, Bach's Cantata Libretti, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 1917 44(1):71-125; doi:10.1093/jrma/44.1.71

Sources

  • Craig Smith, Programme notes - BWV 32, Emmanuel Music.
  • Walter F. Bischof, Text and orchestration for BWV 32, Bach Cantatas, University of Alberta.
  • Alfred Dürr: Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kantaten. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
  • Alfred Dürr: The Cantatas of J.S. Bach, Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-929776-2
  • Werner Neumann: Handbuch der Kantaten J.S.Bachs, 1947, 5th Ed. 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4
  • Hans-Joachim Schulze: Die Bach-Kantaten: Einführungen zu sämtlichen Kantaten Johann Sebastian Bachs. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verl.)
  • Christoph Wolff/Ton Koopman (Eds.): Die Welt der Bach-Kantaten, Metzler/Bärenreiter, Stuttgart und Kassel, 3 Bände Sonderausgabe 2006 ISBN 3-476-02127-0
  • Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini. Studi sui testi delle Cantate sacre di J. S. Bach. Università di Padova, pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, vol. XXXI, Padova & Kassel, 1956, xv-291.
  • Geoffrey Turner. Singing The Word: The Cantatas of J S Bach. New Blackfriars, volume 87, issue 1008, pages 144-154.
  • J. C. J. Day. The texts of Bach's Church cantatas: some observations. German Life and Letters, volume 13 (1960), num. 2, pages 137-144.
  • Harald Streck. Die Verskunst in den poetischen Texten zu den Kantaten J. S. Bachs. Dissertation: Universität Hamburg 1971, 214 pages.

External links

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