Church cantata composed for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, featuring a chorale-based structure with expressive arias and recitatives exploring themes of sin and redemption.
This contemplative Baroque aria uses flowing viola figurations to depict a "divine fountain" washing away sins, with Bach potentially performing the viola solo himself. Its text draws on Psalms and Revelation for vivid metaphors of redemption.
J.S. Bach's cantata "Wo soll ich fliehen hin" (BWV 5) was composed in 1724 for the 19th Sunday after Trinity. Its opening chorus is a masterful fugal movement that expresses profound spiritual anguish and the search for redemption, featuring intricate counterpoint and emotional intensity characteristic of Bach's Leipzig cantatas.
