- Ach Gott und Herr, BWV 714a
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Starts with a sombre setting of the chorale and is then followed by the familiar but intriguing double canon at the octave, with that haunting
simplicity Bach can impart to four related lines of music. The lower voice of the canon is highlighted on the Great Trumpet. From the Neumeister
Chorale Collection.
Instrument:
Casavant, Opus 3246 (1975) at Grace Lutheran Church, Champaign, Illinois - Samples by Brett Milan
- Chorale Text
German:
Ach Gott und Herr,
Wie gross und schwer
Sind mein begangne Sünden!
Da ist niemand,
Der helfen kann,
In dieser Welt zu finden.
2. Lief ich gleich wit
Zu dieser Zeit
Bis an der Welt ihr Enden
Und wollt los sein
Des Kreuzes mein,
Würd ich doch solchs nicht wenden.
--Johann Major, 1613
English:
1. Alas, my God, my sins are great,
My conscience doth upbraid me;
And now I find that at my strait
No man hath power to aid me.
2. And fled I hence in my despair
In some lone spot to hide me,
My griefs would still be with me there
And peace still be denied me.
--tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1863
Audio track was created with Hauptwerk v. 1 software
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