Music List link
UPDATED 04/10/2008

Now
accepting credit cards

 
Samuel Scheidt
Click on composer's name for a biography
 
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze Stund Click to Listen, [3:1]
Two sections, the first with the Chorale in the right hand (a canon with the pedal only continues for two phrases) and the second a chromatic treatment for manual and pedal. Instrument: E.M. Skinner Organ, Opus 719 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Chicago, Illinois (1928) - Samples by Brett Milan

Chorale Text
German:
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund
und ihm sein Leichnam ward verwundt
so gar mit bittern Schmerzen,
die sieben Wort, die Jesus sprach,
betracht in deinem Herzen.

English:
When on the Cross the Savior hung,
And that sore load that on Him weigh'd
With bitter pangs His nature wrung,
Seven words amid His pain He said;
Oh let then well to heart be laid!
--Tr.Catherink Winkworth


Audio track was created with Hauptwerk v. 1 software