Was frag ich nach der Welt - No. 1 from Cantata No. 94 - BWV94

Cantata for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity. 1. Chor Was frag ich nach der Welt Und allen ihren Schätzen Wenn ich mich nur an dir, Mein Jesu, kann ergötzen!.
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You may count your vain Mammon, I will value my Jesus foremost; Jesus, Jesus shall alone be the riches of my soul. Deluded world, deluded world! Im Fall sie wird verachtet. What might its trouble be? This causes it pain: In its downfall it will be scorned.

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World, shame on you! God has loved you indeed so much, that He gave His only-begotten Son for Your sin to the greatest disgrace for your honor's sake, and you will not suffer for Jesus' sake? Aria T The world cannot exalt its pleasures and joys, the illusion of contemptible vanities, high enough. Aria S He can cling to the blind world who cares nothing for his soul; I am sick of the earth.

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Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Romans , a warning of false gods and consolation in temptation 1 Corinthians The cantata is based on the chorale in eight stanzas of the poet Balthasar Kindermann on a melody by Ahasverus Fritsch.


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An unknown poet transformed the chorale to a cantata text, keeping stanzas 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8, expanding 3 and 5 by inserted recitatives , and rewriting 2, 4 and 6 to arias. The cantata text is only generally connected to the readings, referring to the statement in the Gospel "for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light". The poet expresses turning away from the transient world to Jesus. Bach first performed the cantata on 6 August The cantata in eight movements is scored for four vocal soloists— soprano , alto , tenor and bass —and a four-part choir , flauto traverso , two oboes , two violins , viola , organ and continuo.

Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94 (Bach, Johann Sebastian)

The opening chorus is dominated by the concertante flauto traverso in figurations reminiscent of a flute concerto. Bach wrote virtuoso music for flute here for the first time in a cantata for Leipzig. Probably an excellent flute player was available. Two themes of the opening ritornello of twelve measures, one for flute, the other for the strings and oboes, are derived from the melody of the hymn "O Gott, du frommer Gott"