Johann Sebastian Bach In deepest need I cry to you

Cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity BWV 38, 1724

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The opening movement of Bach’s chorale cantata on Luther’s "In deepest need I cry to you" BWV 38, which was composed for the 21st Sunday after Trinity Sunday, belongs to a group of cantatas whose opening choruses are not concertante but have been kept in the style of a motet; the instruments merely amplify the vocal parts. The archaic character of the movement is emphasized by the addition of a trombone quartet. An exciting recitative and an aria full of pungent harmonies is followed by an entirely unusual recitative in which the chorale melody forms the bass foundation for the vocal part. A second aria – which is no less unusual –is a trio which is only accompanied by the continuo; it leads into the concluding chorale which, pursuant to the 1st line of text "Ob bei uns ist der Sünden viel," already begins with a brusque dissonance.
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    1 Coro (Choral)

    In deepest need I cry to you,
    Lord God, do hear my calling!
    Your gracious ear bend down to me
    and listen to my pleading!
    For if you want to look upon
    what sin and evil here have done,
    who can, Lord, stand before you?

    2 Recitativo (Alto)

    Through Jesus’ mercy we alone
    are comforted and his forgivness shown.
    For cunning is the foe’s deceit,
    all human life tormented,
    and God this sinful horror sees.
    How else could now our soul and mind rejoice
    and ev’ry pray’r be answered?
    did Jesus’ holy word and wonders ever cease?

    3 Aria (Tenore)

    I hear within all earthly suff’ring
    a comfort that my Jesus gives.

    ...
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    1 Coro (Choral)

    Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir,
    Herr Gott, erhör mein Rufen;
    dein gnädig Ohr neig her zu mir
    und meiner Bitt sie öffne!
    Denn so du willt das sehen an,
    was Sünd und Unrecht ist getan,
    wer kann, Herr, vor dir bleiben?

    2 Recitativo (Alto)

    In Jesu Gnade wird allein
    der Trost vor uns und die Vergebung sein,
    weil durch des Satans Trug und List
    der Menschen ganzes Leben
    vor Gott ein Sündengreuel ist.
    Was könnte nun die Geistesfreudigkeit
    zu unserm Beten geben,
    wo Jesu Geist und Wort nicht neue Wunder tun?

    3 Aria (Tenore)

    Ich höre mitten in den Leiden
    ein Trostwort, so mein Jesus spricht.

    ...
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    Abridged Foreword of the edition Carus 31.038

    Sven Hiemke
    Translation: David Kosviner

    The cantata Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (In deepest need I cry to you) BWV 38 was composed for the 21st Trinity Sunday, 29 October 1724, and is part of the so-called annual cycle of chorale cantatas which Bach began in his second year of service as Thomaskantor. The objective was to include all the Sundays and feast days of the liturgical year in one cycle of cantatas, each of which was based on a hymn – usually the Hymn of the Day for the Sunday or feast day in question. In the process, the framing verses of the hymn are performed with the text and melody unchanged: In the opening movement of the cantata they appear as a figured chorale arrangement in which three choral voices with imitations prepare the individual hymn lines which are then heard in the fourth voice (mostly the soprano) in augmented note values, and at the end as a setting in the cantional style. The inner verses are paraphrased in the intervening recitatives and arias.

    The author of the madrigal-like texts for Bach’s chorale cantatas remains unknown. It is possible that it was Andreas Stübel (born 1653), the former deputy headmaster of St. Thomas’s

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    Gekürztes Vorwort der Augabe 31.038

    Sven Hiemke

    Die Kantate Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 38 entstand für den 21. Sonntag nach Trinitatis am 29. Oktober 1724 und ist Bestandteil des sogenannten Choralkantaten-Jahrganges, den Bach in seinem zweiten Amtsjahr als Leipziger Thomaskantor begonnen hatte. Das Vorhaben zielte auf einen alle Sonn- und Festtage des Kirchenjahres umfassenden Zyklus von Kantaten, die jeweils auf einem Kirchenlied basieren – meist auf dem Wochenlied des betreffenden Sonn- bzw. Feiertages. Dabei erklingen die Rahmenstrophen des Liedes in unveränderter Text- und Melodiegestalt: Im Eingangssatz der Kantate als ?gurierte Choralbearbeitung, bei der drei Chorstimmen mit Imitationen die einzelnen Kirchenliedzeilen vorbereiten, die dann in der vierten Stimme (meist im Sopran) in vergrößerten Notenwerten zu hören ist, und am Schluss als schlichter Kantionalsatz. Die Binnenstrophen werden in den dazwischenliegenden Rezitativen und Arien paraphrasiert.

    Welcher Dichter die madrigalischen Texte von Bachs Choralkantaten verfasste, ist nicht bekannt. Vielleicht handelt es sich um den ehemaligen Konrektor der Thomasschule Andreas Stübel (*1653), der auch dichterisch tätig war

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