BWV 78 - "Jesu, der du meine Seele" 2. Arie (Duett) S A. Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten, O Jesu, o If I were not to conceal my wickedness.
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My spirit indeed says: Who will set me free? I cannot count how often I fail. And with sighs hand them over to you, Jesus. Which have angered you, Lord!
Das Blut, so meine Schuld durchstreicht, The blood that cancels out my guilt Macht mir das Herze wieder leicht makes my heart again light Und spricht mich frei. Wenn ein erschreckliches Gericht When a terrifying judgement Den Fluch vor die Verdammten spricht, pronounces a curse on the damned, So kehrst du ihn in Segen. Mich kann kein Schmerz und keine Pein bewegen, No sorrow and no pain can move me, Weil sie mein Heiland kennt; because my Saviour knows them Und da dein Herz vor mich in Liebe brennt, and since yout heart burns with love for me So lege ich hinwieder I in turn lay down Das meine vor dich nieder.
What is mine before you. Dies mein Herz, mit Leid vermenget, This heart of mine, mixed with suffering, So dein teures Blut besprenget, sprinkled with your precious blood, So am Kreuz vergossen ist, that was shed on the cross Geb ich dir, Herr Jesu Christ. I give to you , Lord Jesus Christ. Will steal them from your hands. When sin and death assail me. It is therefore part of the cycle of chorale cantatas which Bach composed in his second year at Leipzig.
The texts of these cantatas are based on hymns of which the first and last stanzas are used unchanged while the intervening verses are adapted to recitatives and arias. The unknown author has adapted a 12 stanza hymn by Johannnes Rist which dates from Rist wrote some religious poems and seems unable to express himself in less than 10 stanzas The connection between the gospel reading -Jesus heals 10 lepers -and the hymn is tenuous: However, Rist 's main concern is a meditation on Christ's Passion which heals the faithful and brings peace to the troubled conscience.
In general, Bach's librettist revises and adapts the earlier text to express a more confident faith Rist 's verbal dexterity is at once shown in the opening movement which is an appeal to Jesus expressed in one complex sentence whose words are fitted into a rhyme scheme ababccdd. Adjectives are frequent and conventional -bitter death, dark hell etc -but it is skilfully done and reads fluently. Bach's setting of this opening stanza is magnificent and monumental - so much so that as JulianMincham comments: The duet for soprano and alto which follows is sheer delight.
The text is based on the second stanza of Rist. But either Bach or his librettist has radically altered the hymn to accommodate the joyful music. In the cantata the emphasis is instead placed on the joyous response to Jesus' call. Bach must often have composed movements of this kind in a single evening.
One wonders if he may have put his pipe down on his composing desk after creating a jewel of this kind and allowed himself to think, 'Well, that was a good evening's work'. I wonder also about Bach's composition of this mov. The text has been purposefully altered. Was Bach inspired to write such music by the revised text or did his compositional process begin with a musical idea to which the text was then accommodated?
Of course such a question is unanswerable but it would be fascinating to know how Bach created such joyful beauty The third movement tenor recitative is based on stanzas of the hymn. Two lines are quoted from each stanza.
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What Rist says about human sinfulness and the contradictory nature of our will is stated more succinctly and Bach's librettist anticipates the aria to follow by adding the idea of handing over the burden of our sins to Jesus. Set up a giveaway. Feedback If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us. Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book?
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