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Max Reger
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Lobe den Herren, Op. 135a, No. 15 Click to Listen, [1:13]
The chorale is played in the soprano and a measure later in the pedal in a pseudo canon beginning at various intervals. Registration: HW Bourdon 16' + Gedact 8' + Octave 4' + Progressio Harmonica 2-3 Fach; coupled to PD Subbass 16' + Gedactbass 8' + Violon 8'. Instrument: F. A. Mehmel Village Church Organ, St. Andreas Church, Nehringen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (1868) -
Samples by Prof. Helmut Maier

Chorale Text
German:

1. Lobe den Herren,
Den mächtigen König der Ehren!
Meine geliebete Seele,
Das ist mein Begehren.
Kommet zu Hauf.
Psalter und Harfe wacht auf,
Laßet den Lobgesang hören!

2. Lobe den Herren,
Der alles so herrlich regieret,
Der dich auf Adelers
Fittichen sicher geführet,
Der dich erhält,
Wie es dir selber gefällt;
Hast du nicht dieses verspüret?

3. Lobe den Herren,
Der künstlich und fein dich bereitet,
Der dir Gesundheit
Verliehen, dich freundlich geleitet.
In wieviel Not
Hat dich der gnädige Gott
Über dir Flügel gebreitet.

4. Lobe den Herren,
Der deinen Stand sichtbar gesegnet,
Der aus dem Himmel
Mit Strömen der Liebe geregnet.
Denke daran,
Was der Allmächtige kann,
Der dir mit Liebe begegnet.

5. Lobe den Herren;
Was in mir ist, lobe den Namen.
Alles was Odem hat,
Lobe mit Abrahams Samen*).
Er ist dein Licht;
Seele, vergiß es ja nicht;
Lob ihn und schließe mit Amen!

--Joachim Neander, 1679

English:

1. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the
King of creation!
O my soul, praise Him, for He is Thy
Health and Salvation!
Join the full throng:
Wake, harp and psalter and song;
Sound forth in glad adoration!

2. Praise to the Lord, who o'er all things
so wondrously reigneth,
Who, as on wings of an eagle, uplifteth,
sustaineth.
Hast thou not seen
How thy desires all have been
Granted in what He ordaineth?

3. Praise to the Lord, who hath fearfully,
wondrously, made thee;
Health hath vouchsafed and, when
heedlessly falling, hath stayed thee.
What need or grief
Ever hath failed of relief?--
Wings of His mercy did shade thee.

4. Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper
thy work and defend thee,
Who from the heavens the streams of
His mercy doth send thee.
Ponder anew
What the Almighty can do,
Who with His love doth befriend thee.

5. Praise to the Lord! Oh, let all that is
in me adore Him!
All that hath life and breath, come now
with praises before Him!
Let the Amen
Sound from His people again;
Gladly for aye we adore Him.

--Translated by Catherine Winkworth,
1829-1878


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