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Cantata XXXII.: Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen 1 . First Sunday after the Epiphany ( c. 1740) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts [1917]

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Bach’s Chorals. Part I: 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 2.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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Cantata XXXII.

Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen1 . First Sunday after the Epiphany (c. 1740)

For the melody of the concluding Choral, Louis Bourgeois’ “Ainsi qu’on oit,” see Cantata 13.

The words of the concluding Choral are the twelfth stanza of Paul Gerhardt’s Lenten Hymn, “Weg, mein Herz, mit den Gedanken,” first published in Johann Crüger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica (Berlin, 1647), to another melody (“Zion klagt mit Angst und Schmerzen”):

  • Mein Gott, offne mir die Pforten
  • Solcher Gnad’ und Gutigkeit,
  • Lass mich allzeit aller Orten
  • Schmecken deine Sussigkeit!
  • Liebe mich, und treib’ mich an,
  • Dass ich dich, so gut ich kann,
  • Wiederum umfang’ und liebe,
  • Und ja nun nicht mehr betrube.
  • B.G. vii. 80.

Translations of the Hymn into English are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 412.

Form. Simple (Oboe, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 102.

[1 ] An English version of the Cantata is published by Breitkopf & Haertel, “Blessed Jesus, priceless treasure.”