- O Mensch, Bewein' dein' Sünde Gross, BWV 622
[4:47]
The Phantom Organist as a young organ student had occasion to play this piece at St. John's Episcopal Church for the funeral of an important
University of Southern California dignitary, and the procession arrived near the front just as the music slowed for the dramatic ending, an
electrifying but chilling convergence. The Chorale is sounded on the Solo Cornet with accompaniment on Manual and Pedal Flues.
Midi File available.
Instrument:
Marcussen & Son Organ / St. Stefanuschurch / Moerdijk (Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands) (1965) - Samples by Ariaan Hoogendijk
- Chorale Text
German:
O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross,
darum Christus sein's Vaters Schooss
äussert und kam auf Erden.
Von einer Jungfrau rein und zart
für uns er hier geboren ward,
er wollt' der Mittler werden.
Den Todten er das Leben gab
und legt' dabei all' Krankheit ab,
bis sich die Zeit herdrange,
dass er für uns gekopfert würd',
trug uns'rer Sünden schwere Bürd'
wohl an dem Kreuze lange.
English:
O man, bewail thy grievous fall,
For which Christ left His Father's hall
And came to earth from heaven.
He of a virgin maiden pure
Was born, of man the Savior sure,
And came earth's ills to leaven.
The dead He raised again to life,
The sick He loosed from pain and strife,
Until the time appointed
That He for us should shed His blood
And take on Him our sin's dark load,
Stretched on the Cross accursed.
--Tr. C. S. Terry
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