{{Short description|1725 church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach}} {{good article}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41}} {{use shortened footnotes|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox Bach composition | title = {{lang|de|Jesu, nun sei gepreiset}} | bwv = 41 | image = Thomaskirche Interior.jpg | caption = Thomaskirche, Leipzig | type = Chorale cantata | occasion = New Year's Day | performed = {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1725|1|1|df=y}}|location=Leipzig}} | movements = 6 | chorale = {{based on|"{{langr|de|Jesu, nun sei gepreiset}}"|Johannes Hermann}} | vocal = {{abbr|SATB|soprano, alto, tenor, bass}} choir and solo | instrumental = {{hlist | 3 trumpets | timpani | 3 oboes | 2 violins | viola | violoncello piccolo da spalla | continuo }} }} '''{{lang|de|Jesu, nun sei gepreiset}}''' (Jesus, now be praised),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} '''{{nowrap|BWV 41}}''',{{efn|"BWV" is Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, a thematic catalogue of Bach's works.}} is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for New Year's Day and first performed it on 1 January 1725. It is based on the hymn of the same name that Johannes Hermann wrote for the same occasion, published in 1591. The feast celebrated also the naming of Jesus, but hymn and cantata, while addressing Jesus by name immediately, focus on the turn of the year in thanks for received blessings and prayers for continued support.
The cantata is part of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during his tenure as {{langr|de|Thomaskantor}} that began in 1723. In the style of the cycle, an unknown poet retained the outer stanzas for framing choral movements and paraphrased the middle stanza into four movements for soloists, alternating arias and recitatives. Bach scored the work for four soloists, a four-part choir and a festive Baroque instrumental ensemble of three trumpets and timpani, oboes, strings including a violoncello piccolo da spalla, and basso continuo. The chorale movements with the full orchestra contrast with the inner movements that have been described as chamber music. Bach illustrated the cycle of the years by using material from the first movement, trumpet fanfares, also in the last, ending the work similarly to its beginning.
== History, hymn and words == Bach wrote {{lang|de|Jesu, nun sei gepreiset}} in 1724, his second year as {{langr|de|Thomaskantor}} in Leipzig, for New Year's Day.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006}}{{sfn|Wolf|2010}} The feast also celebrated the naming and circumcision of Jesus. The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Epistle to the Galatians, by faith we inherit ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Galatians|chapter=3|verse=23|range=–29}}), and from the Gospel of Luke, the Circumcision and naming of Jesus ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Luke|chapter=2|verse=21}}).{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}
In 1724, Bach composed his {{langr|de|chorale cantata cycle}}; he began on the first Sunday after Trinity to write for each occasion of the liturgical year a cantata that was based on one Lutheran hymn.{{sfn|Wolff|2000}} Thus cantata is based on a 1593 hymn for New Year's Day in three long stanzas of 14 lines each by Johannes Hermann,{{sfn|Wolf|2010}} a theologian born in Silesia who had also been a {{langr|de|Thomaskantor}}.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}}{{sfn|Chorale text|2024}} Its melody was composed by Melchior Vulpius, who first published it in his {{lang|de|Ein schön geistlich Gesangbuch}}, printed in Jena in 1609.{{sfn|Chorale text|2024}} The hymn calls Jesus by name first, fitting for the celebration of the naming.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}} Otherwise it is more concerned with the beginning of another new year. The hymn was popular in Leipzig and was used in two more of Bach's cantatas for the occasion,{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} {{lang|de|''Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied'', BWV 190 |italic=unset}}, the previous year and {{lang|de|''Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm'', BWV 171 |italic=unset}}, in 1729.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}}
In the style of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, an unknown poet retained the outer stanzas for framing choral movements 1 and 6, and paraphrased the middle stanza into a sequence of alternating arias and recitatives. He expanded the 14 lines by additional ideas but without specific references to the Gospel reading.{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA150 150]}} He used exact quotes from the hymn in all these movements.{{sfn|Wolf|2010}}
Bach led the Thomanerchor in the first performance of the cantata on 1 January 1725,{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA149 149]}} and reprised it at least once, between 1732 and 1735.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}
== Music == === Structure and scoring === Bach structured {{lang|de|Jesu, nun sei gepreiset}} in six movements. Both the text and the tune of the hymn are retained in the outer movements, a chorale fantasia and a four-part closing chorale. Bach scored the work for four vocal soloists (soprano (S), alto (A), tenor (T) and bass (B)), a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of three trumpets (Tr), timpani (Ti), three oboes (Oa), two violin parts (Vl), one viola part (Va), violoncello piccolo da spalla (Vp) and basso continuo.{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=148–149}}{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}} The duration of the cantata is given as 30 minutes.{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006}}
In the following table of the movements, the scoring, keys and time signatures are taken from Alfred Dürr's standard work {{lang|de|Die Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach}}.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=148–149}} The continuo, which plays throughout, is not shown. {{Classical movement header | show_text_source = no | work = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'' | instruments1 = Brass | instruments2 = Winds | instruments3 = Strings }} {{Classical movement row | id = m1 | number = 1 | title = {{langr|de|Jesu, nun sei gepreiset}} | type = Chorus | vocal = SATB | instruments1 = 3Tr, Ti | instruments2 = 3Ob | instruments3 = 2Vl Va | key = {{nowrap|C major}} | time = {{music|common-time}} }} {{Classical movement row | id = m2 | number = 2 | title = {{langr|de|Laß uns, o höchster Gott}} | type = Aria | vocal = Soprano | instruments1 = | instruments2 = 3Ob | instruments3 = | key = {{nowrap|G major}} | time = {{music|time|6|8}} }} {{Classical movement row | id = m3 | number = 3 | title = {{langr|de|Ach! deine Hand, dein Segen muss allein}} | type = Recitative | vocal = Alto | instruments1 = | instruments2 = | instruments3 = | key = | time = {{music|common-time}} }} {{Classical movement row | id = m4 | number = 4 | title = {{langr|de|Woferne du den edlen Frieden}} | type = Aria | vocal = Tenor | instruments1 = | instruments2 = | instruments3 = Vp | key = A minor | time = {{music|common-time}} }} {{Classical movement row | id = m5 | number = 5 | title = {{langr|de|Doch weil der Feind bei Tag und Nacht}} | type = Recitative | vocal = SAT, Bass solo | instruments1 = | instruments2 = | instruments3 = | key = | time = {{music|common-time}} }} {{Classical movement row | id = m6 | number = 6 | title = {{langr|de|Dein ist allein die Ehre, dein ist allein der Ruhm}} | type = Chorale | vocal = SATB | instruments1 = 3Tr, Ti | instruments2 = 3Ob | instruments3 = 2Vl Va | key = C major | time = {{music|common-time}} }}{{End}}
=== Movements === thumb|upright|Gardiner in a rehearsal, 2007 John Eliot Gardiner who conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000 and thus performed the cantata in its first concert, noted that Bach and his time followed the "rhythms and patterns of the liturgical year", "perhaps even with perceptions of the basic cyclic round of life and death".{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} He observed Bach's musical ways to illustrate the "progression from beginning to end to new beginning",{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} including a quote of material from the first movement in the last.{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}}
==== 1 ==== In the opening chorale fantasia, "{{langr|de|Jesu, nun sei gepreiset zu diesem neuen Jahr}}" (Jesus, now be praised at this new year),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} Bach faced the problem of structuring the unusually long stanza of 14 lines and an additional repeat of the last two lines, as seems to have been customary in Leipzig.{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=149}}{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} The concerto of the orchestra is dominated by a syncope fanfare motif from the trumpets. In the first four lines, repeated in the next four and the final two, the soprano sings the cantus firmus, with the lower voices in free polyphony.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}} The melody ends a note higher than it began.{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} Lines 9 and 10, speaking of "{{langr|de|daß wir in guter Stille das alt' Jahr hab'n erfüllet}}" (... in good silence ...){{sfn|Dellal|2024}} are marked adagio; the choir sings in homophony in triple meter, accompanied by the orchestra without the trumpets, which Gardiner described "a moment of magic when the forward momentum comes to a sudden halt". Lines 11 and 12, repeated in 13 and 14, are a presto fugato, with the instruments playing colla parte; the fugal subject is derived from the first phrase of the chorale melody.{{sfn|Mincham|2010}} The fugato expresses "{{langr|de|Wir wollen uns dir ergeben}}" (We want to devote ourselves to you),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} an "enthusiastic rededication to spiritual values".{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}}
thumb|upright=1.2|Baroque trumpet Lines 15 and 16 repeat lines 1 and 2, saying "{{langr|de|behüt Leib, Seel und Leben}}" (Protect our body, soul and life).{{sfn|Dellal|2024}}{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=150}}{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}} In this repetition, Bach achieved "a majestic concluding sweep", as Gardiner wrote, with a reprise of the initial fanfare music.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}}{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}}
==== 2 ==== In contrast, both arias have been described as chamber music.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}} The first aria, "{{langr|de|Laß uns, o höchster Gott, das Jahr vollbringen}}" (Let us, O highest God, complete the year),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} is sung by the soprano, accompanied by three oboes in pastoral {{music|time|6|8}} time.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}}{{sfn|Wolf|2010}} A concluding Halleluja is richly ornamented, reminiscent of a medieval jubilus.{{sfn|Wolf|2010}}
==== 3 ==== A short secco recitative follows, "{{langr|de|Ach! deine Hand, dein Segen muß allein das A und O, der Anfang und das Ende sein}}" (Ah! your hand, your blessing must alone be the A and O, the beginning and the end).{{sfn|Dellal|2024}}
==== 4 ==== A tenor aria, "{{langr|de|Woferne du den edlen Frieden}}" (As far as you have ordained noble peace),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} is dominated by an obbligato violoncello piccolo in expansive movement.{{sfn|Dellal|2024}}{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=150}} It was then a new instrument, offering flexibility and a broad range.{{sfn|Wolf|2010}}
==== 5 ==== A recitative for bass, "{{langr|de|Doch weil der Feind bei Tag und Nacht zu unserm Schaden wacht}}" (Yet since the enemy day and night watches for our harm),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} contains one line from Martin Luther's {{langr|de|Deutsche Litanei}} (German litany). Bach highlighted this line, "{{langr|de|den Satan unter unsre Füße treten}}" (crush Satan under our feet),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} setting it for four-part choir marked allegro, as if the congregation joined the prayer of the individual. The soprano sings the melody from Luther's Litanei.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}}
==== 6 ==== The closing chorale, "{{langr|de|Dein ist allein die Ehre}}" (Yours alone is the honor),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} is a four-part setting{{sfn|Dahn|2024}} with independent instruments; the trumpets repeat the first two bars from the opening ritornello of the first movement a postlude after lines of this final movement.{{sfn|Hofmann|2006}}{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} This miniaturised pattern connects the cantata's beginning and end.{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} The trumpets are silent in lines 9 to 14; lines 11 to 14 are in {{music|time|3|4}} time, but then the final fanfare recalls the beginning.{{sfn|Dellal|2024}}{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=150}} Gardiner noted that Bach achieves a suggestion of the year's cycle by ending both the first movement and the end of the cantata as the work began, as a "closing of the circle".{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} <score sound raw> \header { tagline = ##f } \paper { paper-height = 370\mm } \layout { indent = 0\cm \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } \context { \Voice \remove "Dynamic_engraver" } \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves } }
global = { \key c \major \time 4/4 \partial 4 }
tI = \relative c'' { <g' e>8 <a f>4 <g e>16 <f d> <g e>8 <g, e>16 <g e> <c g> <c g> <e c> <e c> | <g e>8 <a f>4 <g e>16 <f d> <g e>4 } tII = \relative c' { c'4 r4 r8 c,16 c e e g g | c8 c,16 c c c c c c'4 }
trombaI = \relative c'' { \global \set midiInstrument = "trumpet" \repeat volta 2 { r4 | R1*3 | \tI r4 | R1*3 | \tI } r4 | R1*19 | \tI \bar "|." }
trombaIII = \relative c' { \global \set midiInstrument = "trombone" \repeat volta 2 { r4 | R1*3 | \tII r4 | R1*3 | \tII } r4 | R1*19 | \tII \bar "|." }
soprano = \new Voice = "sopvoice" \relative c'' { \global \voiceOne \set Staff.midiPanPosition = -0.5 \set midiInstrument = "violin" \tempo 4=96 \repeat volta 2 { e4 | e c d e | f2 d4\fermata d | d c c b | c2. r4 | r2 r4 d | d d d e | c2 c4\fermata c | b c d d | c2. r4 | r2 r4 } b4 | b b b b | c2 c4\fermata b b b b b | c2 c4\fermata \tempo 4. = 96 e4 \time 3/4 | e (d) c | d2 e4 | f2. | e2\fermata e4 | d2 d4 | cis2 cis4 | d2.~ | d2\fermata e4 | e (d) c | d2 e4 | f2. | e2\fermata e4 | d2 d4 | cis2 cis4 | d2.~ | d2\fermata \tempo 4 = 96 e4 \time 4/4 | e c d e | f2 d4 d | d c c b | c2. r4 r2 \tempo 4 = 48 r4\fermata \bar "|." }
alto = \new Voice \relative c'' { \global \voiceTwo \set Staff.midiPanPosition = 0.5 \set midiInstrument = "viola" \repeat volta 2 { g4 | g g g g |f8 (g a4) bes4 a | g g a g | g2. r4 | r2 r4 g8 (fis) | g4 g8 (fis) g4 g | g (f8 e) f4 g | g8 (f) e4 a g8 f | e2. r4 | r2 r4 } g | g a g gis | a2 a4 a | a g d g | g2 g4 g \time 3/4 | g2 g4 | g (a) b | c (b a) | g2 c4 | b (a) g | a (bes) g | f2 (bes4 | a2) a4 | b2 a4 | a2 g4 | a2 (g4) | g2 g4 | f (g) a | g (a) bes | a (bes g fis2) a4 \time 4/4 g g g g | a2 g4 g | g g g8 [a] g f | e2. r4 | r2 r4 \bar "|." }
tenor = \new Voice \relative c' { \global \clef "treble_8" \set Staff.midiPanPosition = -1 \set midiInstrument = "cello" \repeat volta 2 { c4\p | c8 (d) e4 d c | c (f) f a, | b c f8 (e) d4 e2. r4 | r2 r4 b8 (a) | b ([a]) b (c) d4 c8 (bes) | bes4 ( a8 g) a4 e'4 | d c c b | g2. r4 | r2 r4 } d'4 | d8 (e) fis4 e e | e2 e4 f | f e8 (f) g4 f | f (e8 d) e4 c4 \time 3/4 | c (d) e | d2 g4 | c,2 (d4) | e2 g4 | g (f) e | f e2 | d2 (e4 | f2) c4 | b (e) e | a, (b) c | c (b8 a b4) | c2 a4 | a2 d4 | e2 e4 | a, (d bes | a2) c4 \time 4/4 | c c b c | c8 (e d c) b4 b | b c8 (d) e4 d8 (g,) | g2. r4 | r2 r4\bar "|." }
bass = \new Voice \relative c { \global \clef bass \set Staff.midiPanPosition = 1 \set midiInstrument = "cello" \repeat volta 2 { c4\p | c c' b bes | a ( g8 f) bes4 fis | g8 (f!) e4 f g | c,2. r4 | r2 r4 g4 | g'8 ([fis]) g (a) b (g) c4 | f,!2 f4 e8 (f) | g4 a8 (g) f4 g8 (g,) | c2. r4 | r2 r4 } g4 | g'8 ([fis]) e (dis) e ([d]) c (b) | a2 a4 d | e8 ([f]) g (a) g (f) e ([d]) | c2 c4 c4 \time 3/4 | c' (b) a | b (a) g | a2 (b4) | c2 c4 | g (a) bes | a (g) a | bes (a g | d2) a'4 |gis2 a4 | f2 e4 | d2 (g4) | c,2 cis4 | d (e) f | e (f) g | fis (g g,) | d'2 a8 (b) \time 4/4 | c ([d]) e (c) f ([g]) f (e) | d (e f d) g ([a]) g (f) | e ([d]) e (f) g ([f]) g (g,) | c2. r4 | r2 r4 \bar "|." }
verse = \new Lyrics = "firstVerse" \lyricsto "sopvoice" { << { Dein ist al -- lein die Eh -- re, dein ist al -- lein der Ruhm; Ge -- duld im Kreuz uns leh -- re, re -- gier all un -- ser Tun, } \new Lyrics = "secondverse" \with { alignBelowContext = "firstverse" } { \set associatedVoice = "sopvoice" bis wir fröh -- lich ab -- schei -- den ins e -- wig Him -- mel -- reich, zu wah -- rem Fried und Freu -- de, den Heil -- gen Got -- tes gleich. } >> In -- des machs mit uns al -- len nach dei -- nem Wohl -- ge -- fal -- len: solchs sin -- get heut ohn Scher -- zen die christ -- gläu -- bi -- ge Schar \repeat unfold 2 { und wünscht mit Mund und Her -- zen ein se -- ligs neu -- es } \alternative { { Jahr, } { Jahr. } } }
trombaPart = \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff \with { \consists "Merge_rests_engraver" \magnifyStaff #2/3 } << \new Voice { \voiceOne \trombaI } \new Voice { \voiceTwo \trombaIII } >> >>
choirPart = \new ChoirStaff << \new Staff \with { \consists "Merge_rests_engraver" } << \soprano \alto \context Lyrics = "sopvoice" { \lyricsto "sopvoice" { \verse } } >> \new Staff % The tenor and bass voices need to be split because their ranges cross often. \tenor \new Staff \bass >>
\score { << \trombaPart \choirPart >> \layout { } } \score { \midi { \context { \Score midiChannelMapping = #'instrument } \context { \Staff \remove "Staff_performer" } \context { \Voice \consists "Staff_performer" } } \unfoldRepeats { << \trombaI \\ \trombaIII \\ \soprano \\ \alto \\ \tenor \\ \bass >> } } </score>
== Manuscripts and publication == Bach's autograph score of the cantata is extant, and a set of the parts missing only the original timpani part. Bach's heirs split the orchestral part, with the first copies remaining in Leipzig, while a duplicate set for strings belonged, with the score, first to Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, the to Christian Friedrich Penzel in Ölsnitz. In the 18th century, both sets were expanded to complete performance material, indicating that this cantata was appreciated. Two original parts exist for violin I which also contain the part of the violoncello piccolo. The first was for the 1725 performance, copied by Johann Andreas Kuhnau. The second dates to the 1730s, copied by Anna Magdalena Bach for the first movement, by J. S. Bach, beginning with the fourth movement.{{sfn|Wolf|2010}}
The cantata was first published in 1860 in the first complete edition of Bach's work, the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe. The volume in question was edited by Wilhelm Rust.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}{{sfn|Wolf|2010}} In the Neue Bach-Ausgabe it was published in 1965, edited by Werner Neumann.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}{{sfn|Wolf|2010}}
== Recordings == A list of recordings is provided on the Bach Cantatas Website.{{sfn|Oron|2024}} Instrumental groups playing period instruments in historically informed performances are marked by green background.
{{Cantata discography header | work=''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'' | instruments={{abbr|Instr.|Type of instruments }}}}
{{Cantata discography row | id = Ramin | title = ''Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 – Cantatas II'' | conductor = {{sortname|Günther|Ramin}} | choir = Thomanerchor | orchestra = Gewandhausorchester | soloists = {{plainlist| * soloists from Thomanerchor * Gert Lutze * Johannes Oettel }} | label = Leipzig Classics | year = {{Start date|1950}} | orchestra_type = }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Shaw | title = ''Bach Aria Group – Cantatas & Cantata Movements'' | conductor = {{sortname|Robert|Shaw|dab=conductor}} | choir = Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra | orchestra = | soloists = {{plainlist| * Eileen Farrell * Carol Smith * Jan Peerce * Norman Farrow }} | label = RCA | year = {{Start date|1954}} | orchestra_type = }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Rilling | title = {{lang|de|Die Bach Kantate Vol. 19}} | conductor = {{sortname|Helmuth|Rilling}} | choir = Gächinger Kantorei | orchestra = Bach-Collegium Stuttgart | soloists = {{plainlist| * Helen Donath * Marga Höffgen * Adalbert Kraus * Siegmund Nimsgern }} | label = Hänssler | year = {{Start date|1973}} | orchestra_type = }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Harnoncourt | title = ''J. S. Bach: Das Kantatenwerk – Sacred Cantatas Vol. 3'' | conductor = {{sortname|Nikolaus|Harnoncourt}} | choir = {{ubl| Wiener Sängerknaben | Chorus Viennensis }} | orchestra = Concentus Musicus Wien | soloists = {{plainlist| * soloist from Wiener Sängerknaben * Paul Esswood * Kurt Equiluz * Ruud van der Meer }} | label = Teldec | year = {{Start date|1974}} | orchestra_type = Period }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Coin | title = ''J. S. Bach: Cantatas with Violoncelle Piccolo (Vo. 3)'' | conductor = {{sortname|Christophe|Coin}} | choir = Chœur de Chambre Accentus | orchestra = Ensemble Baroque de Limoges | soloists = {{plainlist| * Barbara Schlick * Andreas Scholl * Christoph Prégardien * Gotthold Schwarz }} | label = Astrée Auvidis | year = {{Start date|1995}} | orchestra_type = Period }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Koopman | title = ''J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11'' | conductor = {{sortname|Ton|Koopman}} | orchestra = Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir | soloists = {{plainlist| * Sibylla Rubens * Annette Markert * {{nowrap|Christoph Prégardien}} * Klaus Mertens }} | label = Antoine Marchand | year = {{Start date|1999}} | orchestra_type = Period }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Gardiner | title = ''Bach Cantatas Vol. 17: Berlinurg''{{sfn|Gardiner|2008}} | conductor = {{sortname|John Eliot|Gardiner}} | choir = Monteverdi Choir | orchestra = English Baroque Soloists | soloists = {{plainlist| * Lucy Ballard * Charles Humphries * James Gilchrist * Peter Harvey }} | label = Soli Deo Gloria | year = {{Start date|2000}} | orchestra_type = Period }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Leusink | title = ''Bach Edition Vol. 21 – Cantatas Vol. 12'' | conductor = {{sortname|Pieter Jan|Leusink}} | choir = Holland Boys Choir | orchestra = Netherlands Bach Collegium | soloists = {{plainlist| * Ruth Holton * Sytse Buwalda * Knut Schoch * Bas Ramselaar }} | label = Brilliant Classics | year = {{Start date|2000}} | orchestra_type = Period }} {{Cantata discography row | id = Suzuki | title = ''J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 33'' | conductor = {{sortname|Masaaki|Suzuki}} | orchestra = {{nowrap|Bach Collegium Japan}} | soloists = {{plainlist| * Yukari Nonoshita * Robin Blaze * Jan Kobow * Dominik Wörner }} | label = BIS | year = {{Start date|2005}} | orchestra_type = Period }} {{End}}
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=== Cited sources === * {{cite web | url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000056?lang=en | title = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41; BC A 22 | website = Bach Digital | date = 2024 | access-date = 15 December 2024 | ref = {{sfnref|Bach Digital|2024}} }} * {{cite web | last = Dahn | first = Luke | url = http://www.bach-chorales.com/BWV0041_6.htm | title = BWV 41.6 | website = bach-chorales.com | date = 2024 | access-date = 15 December 2024 }} * {{cite web | last = Dellal | first = Pamela | author-link = Pamela Dellal | url = https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/bach-translations/bwv-41 | title = BWV 41 – ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'' | publisher = Emmanuel Music | date = 2024 | access-date = 15 December 2024 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Dürr | first1 = Alfred | author1-link = Alfred Dürr | last2 = Jones | first2 = Richard D. P. | author2-link = Richard D. P. Jones | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA148 | chapter = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41 | title = The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text | location = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 2006 | pages = 148–151 | isbn = 978-0-19-969628-4 }} * {{Cite AV media notes | last = Gardiner | first = John Eliot | author-link = John Eliot Gardiner | url = https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SDG150 | title = Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Cantatas Nos 16, 41, 58, 143, 153 & 171 | publisher = Soli Deo Gloria |via=Hyperion Records | date = 2008 | access-date = 15 December 2024 }} * {{cite web | last = Hofmann | first = Klaus | author-link = Klaus Hofmann | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Rec-BIG/Suzuki-C33c%5BBIS-SACD1541%5D.pdf | title = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41 / ''Jesus, now be praised'' | website = Bach Cantatas website | page = 4 | date = 2006 | access-date = 30 December 2012 }} * {{cite web | last = Mincham | first = Julian | url = http://www.jsbachcantatas.com/documents/chapter-32-bwv-41 | title = Chapter 32 BWV 41 – The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach | website = The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach | date = 2010 | access-date = 20 August 2022 }} * {{cite web | last = Oron | first = Aryeh | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/BWV41.htm | title = Cantata BWV 41 ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'' | website = Bach Cantatas website | date = 2024 | access-date = 15 December 2024 }} * {{cite book | last = Wolf | first = Uwe | author-link = Uwe Wolf | translator-last = Coombs | translator-first = John | url = https://www.carusmedia.com/images-intern/medien//30/3104100/3104100x.pdf | title = Johann Sebastian Bach / Jesu, nun sei gepreiset / O Lord, we come to praise thee / BWV 41 | publisher = Carus-Verlag | location = Stuttgart | date = 2010 | pages = 1, 4 | isbn = }} * {{cite AV media notes | last = Wolff | first = Christoph | author-link = Christoph Wolff | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Rec-BIG/Koopman-C13c%5BAM-3CD%5D.pdf | title = Chorale Cantatas from the cycle of the Leipzig / church cantatas, 1724–25 (III) | website = Bach Cantatas website | page = 9 | date = 2000 | access-date = 28 August 2012 }} * {{cite web | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/Chorale005-Eng3.htm | title = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'' / Text and Translation of Chorale | website = Bach Cantatas website | date = 2003 | access-date = 27 December 2012 | ref = {{sfnref|Chorale text|2024}} }}
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