(From the depths now do I call, Lord, to thee) for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, oboe, bassoon, violin, 2 violas, continuo

Cantata BWV 131 is based on the early liturgical Penitential Psalm 130, one of the texts of the Christian tradition most frequently set to music. Thanks to a hand-written note ascribed to a Mühlhausen preacher, “At the request of Dr. Georg Christ Eilmars set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Organist at Mühlhausen”, it is also one of the few surviving early compositions of Bach’s that can be reliably dated; a connection to the 1707 fire that devastated Mühlhausen, an imperial city of Thuringia, has always been assumed.