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Johann Gottfried Walther
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Variations on "Liebster Jesu" Click to Listen, [4:38]
Chorale and four attractive baroque variations, with terrace style repeats and pedal at the beginning and end. Meantone Fifth Comma temperament, Impulse reverberation added. Instrument: Schantz at First Baptist Church of Riverside, California (1966) sampled by Jonathan Orwig

Chorale Text
German:
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier,
dich und dein Wort unzuhören;
lenke Sinnen und Begier
auf die süssen Himmelslehren,
dass die Herzen von der Erden
ganz zu dir gezogen werden.

English:
Blessed Jesu, at Thy word
We are gathered all to hear Thee;
Let our hearts and souls be stirred
Now to seek and love and fear Thee;
By Thy teachings sweet and holy
Drawn from earth to love Thee solely.
--Tr. C. Winkworth


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