The piece is a solo cantata with lyrics by Erdmann Neumeister.

He composed the solo cantata in Leipzig for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and probably first performed it on 17 October 1728.

Flaig has recorded solo cantatas by Bach, Telemann and Graupner.

The cantata is sometimes called a solo cantata, because solo voices perform all movements but the closing chorale.

As a solo cantata, the work has attracted many conductors and singers who are not specialized in Baroque music to record it.

The work is a solo cantata for the Feast of the Purification of Mary.

Bach composed this solo cantata in late 1725 in Leipzig.

Bach wrote the solo cantata in Leipzig for the third Sunday before Lent, called Septuagesima.

He wrote the solo cantata for soprano in Leipzig for a wedding, first performed between 1738 and 1746.

In 1976 she gave the first performance of Britten's the solo cantata Phaedra which had been written for her.