mountain which is named the Mount of Olives. 10 The soprano aria, "" (Jesus, Your merciful gaze), is also based on the wedding cantata . It is one of the rare pieces in Bach's music without basso continuo, with the two unison flutes, the oboe and the unison strings playing a trio, augmented to a quartet by the singer. The original words in the wedding cantata mentioned "" (innocence). Brian Robins notes "the lightly translucent texture reflecting the text's allusion to Christ leaving his body to ascend to Heaven". Jones thinks that the setting without an earthly continuo represents the Gnadenblicke (glances of Grace) of the text. 11 The closing chorale, "" (When shall it happen"), is the seventh stanza of "", written in 1697 by Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer. Set in the first person, it expresses the desire of the speaker for the "liebe Zeit" (dear time) when he sees the Saviour in his glory. Continuing saying "wir" (we), he imagines to greet him and kiss him. It is set as a chorale fantasia. The soprano sings the in long notes, on the melody of "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen". Similar to the final chorale of the Christmas Oratorio, the chorale tune in a church mode appears in the triumphant context of a different major key. The text expresses longing for the day of being united with Jesus in Heaven. The musicologist Julian Mincham interprets the mode of the tune as "the human state of waiting and hoping", while the concerto represents the fulfillment. Mincham compares the writing to the opening chorale fantasias of the second cantata cycle of chorale cantatas, finding the composition for the lower voices "endlessly inventive, frequently related to the textual images" pointing out "the passionate and clinging representation of kissing the Saviour beneath the caressing flutes, in the penultimate phrase". Recordings The sortable listing is taken from the selection provided by Aryeh Oron on the Bach Cantatas Website. Ensembles with period instruments in historically informed performance and choirs of one voice per part (OVPP) is marked by green background. Notes References External links Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Ascension Oratorio) BWV 11; BC D 9 / Oratorio (Ascension Day) Bach Digital BWV 11.6 bach-chorales.com Passions and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach 1735 compositions Oratorios based on the Bible Ascension of Jesus