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Cantata no. 43: Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV.43

BWV 43 Vocal

Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen ("God goes up with jubilation" or "God has gone up with a shout"), BWV 43, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the Feast of the Ascension, and led the first performance on 30 May 1726. The work is part of Bach's third cantata cycle.

Bach wrote the music during his third year as Thomaskantor, the church music director of Leipzig. After two years of composing new cantatas for the occasions of the liturgical year, he began his third year by performing music by others, especially his cousin Johann Ludwig Bach. In Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, Bach used his cousin's cantata format, which featured a poem as text, in addition to quotations from the Old and New Testaments and closing chorale music. The Biblical quotations were taken from Psalm 47, traditionally understood as a reference to the Ascension, and from the prescribed Gospel for the occasion, Mark 16. The closing chorale consists of two stanzas from "Du Lebensfürst, Herr Jesu Christ" with text by Johann Rist.

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Movements

Teil I

  1. I. Coro "Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen"
  2. II. Recitativo (Tenore) "Es will der Höchste sich ein Siegsgepräng bereiten"
  3. III. Aria (Tenore) "Ja tausend mal tausend begleiten den Wagen"
  4. IV. Recitativo (Soprano) "Und der Herr, nachdem er mit ihnen geredet hatte"
  5. V. Aria (Soprano) "Mein Jesus hat nunmehr"

Teil II

  1. VI. Recitativo (Basso) "Es kommt der Helden Held"
  2. VII. Aria (Basso) "Er ists, der ganz allein die Kelter hat getreten"
  3. VIII. Recitativo (Alto) "Der Vater hat ihm ja ein ewig Reich bestimmet"
  4. IX. Aria (Alto) "Ich sehe schon im Geist"
  5. X. Recitativo (Soprano) "Er will mir neben sich die Wohnung zubereiten"
  6. XI. Choral "Du Lebensfürst, Herr Jesu Christ"

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