Bach wrote this cantata – recorded here for All of Bach with Shunske Sato for a date in the liturgical calendar that he associated strongly with suffering: the second Sunday after Epiphany. That is not immediately obvious, as the set sermon for this date concerns a cheerful miracle: Jesus turns water into wine at the Wedding at Cana. But Bach and his librettist read this as a metaphor for Jesus’s salvation, which will transform worldly suffering into heavenly bliss. So the aria comprises two parts. In the first part, Bach portrays the sorrow, and in the second the transcendence of the world.

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Recorded for the project All of Bach on August 27th 2021 at the Walloon Church, Amsterdam. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel https://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating https://bit.ly/3J5uprM.

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Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato, violin and direction
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Alex Potter, alto
Thomas Hobbs, tenor
Stephan MacLeod, bass

0:00 Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (Arie)
7:17 Mein liebster Gott (Rezitativ)
8:18 Der Gott, der mir hat versprochen (Arie)
10:59 Mein Kummer nimmet zu (Rezitativ)
12:13 Ächzen und erbärmlich Weinen (Arie)
18:44 So sei nun, Seele, deine (Choral)