The cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (Jesus took the Twelve to Him) was performed together with BWV 23 on Quinquagesima (the last Sunday before Lent) in 1723 as part of Johann Sebastian Bach’s audition for the position of Thomascantor in Leipzig. Both works were later repeated during his first full annual cycle of cantatas in the city. The modest instrumental scoring of this highly expressive piece did not prevent Bach from devising a rather unusual form – from the opening arioso to the central accompanied recitative to the closing chorale with obbligato instruments throughout.
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, english translationhtml file, Singing text, english translation (Sample)1 Arioso e CoroJesus calling then the Twelve to him, said:
2 Aria (Alto)
Come now, we go up hence to Jerusalem
and thuswise all things will happen,
all things be thus accomplished
which where prophesied of the Son of man.
But they understood not his meaning,
Nor did they know what things he spoke to them.My Saviour take me, take thou me,
3 Recitativo (Basso)
I would away with thee today
and in Jerusalem would share thy cross with thee.
Ah me! ‘twere well I know the price
that thou hast paid, thy sacrifice,
to gain me paradise,
ah! this were well for me.Lord Jesus, bid me go, and I will hasten,
tho’ flesh and blood cannot well apprehend,
as thy disciples then, all that thy words portend....
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Englishhtml file, Introductory text, English (Sample)Foreword of the Edition Carus 31.022/03
Ulrich Leisinger
Translation: John Coombs
The cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (“Jesus took unto him the twelve”), BWV 22, is one of the two test pieces which Johann Sebastian Bach submitted in February 1723 when applying for the position of Kantor of St. Thomas in Leipzig. Comparison between the texts and those of the test pieces submitted by Christoph Graupner, who had completed his examination for the same post a few weeks earlier, suggests that the texts to be set by the candidates for the position of successor to Johann Kuhnau had been selected by the Leipzig clergy, so that the conditions would be the same for each candidate. Bach’s cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe was intend ed for use on the Sunday Estomihi, the last Sunday before Lent, which in 1723 fell on the 7th February. It was suit able as the principal music performed before the sermon, where as the cantata Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23, was probably sung after the sermon, during the Communion. A publication of the texts of the church music used at Leipzig shows that BWV 22 was performed again on the corresponding Sunday of the following year, the 20th February 1724.
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Germanhtml file, Introductory text, German (Sample)Vorwort der Ausgabe 31.022/03
Ulrich Leisinger
Die Kantate Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe BWV 22 ist eines der beiden Probestücke, mit denen sich Johann Sebastian Bach im Februar 1723 um das Leipziger Thomaskantorat bewarb. Ein Vergleich der Texte mit denen der Bewerbungskompositionen Christoph Graupners, der wenige Wochen zuvor seine Probe abgelegt hatte, lassen vermuten, dass den Kandidaten um die Nachfolge Johann Kuhnaus die Texte von der Leipziger Geistlichkeit gestellt wurden, um gleichwertige Prüfungsbedingungen zu schaffen. Bachs Kantate Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe diente offenbar am Sonntag Estomihi, der im Jahre 1723 auf den 7. Februar fiel, als Hauptmusik vor der Predigt, wohingegen die Kantate Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn BWV 23 nach der Predigt, während der Austeilung des Abendmahls, erklungen sein dürfte. Durch einen Textdruck zur Leipziger Kirchenmusik ist eine Wiederaufführung bereits für den entsprechenden Sonntag des Folgejahres, den 20. Februar 1724, belegt. Da die Originalstimmen verschollen sind, lassen sich für weitere Aufführungen keine zuverlässigen Anhaltspunkte gewinnen.
Der namentlich nicht bekannte Textdichter geht vom Sonntagsevangelium aus Lukas 18 aus; zwei Verse daraus werden der
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Joh. Seb. Bach:Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe
Die Kantate „Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe” BWV 22 ist eines der beiden Probestücke, mit denen sich Bach im Februar 1723 um das Leipziger Thomaskantorat bewarb. Der namentlich nicht bekannte Textdichter geht vom Evangelium aus Lukas 18 aus, dem Aufbruch Jesu nach Jerusalem. Bach geht wie gewohnt sensibel auf den Text ein und macht auch von der musikalischen Ausdeutung einzelner Worte Gebrauch. Setzt einen leistungsfähigen Chor voraus, der auch etwas mit der historischen Aufführungspraxis vertraut ist.
Quelle: Singen und Musizieren im Gottesdienst 2/2002, S. 80
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