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Samuel Scheidt
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Da Jesus an dem Kreuze Stund Click to Listen, [2:52]
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. Part 1 registration: Man. 1 RH - Holpyp 8' + Praestant 4' + Sesquialter 2 st.; Man 2 LH - Holpyp 8' + Holpyp 4' + Woodlfluyt 2'; Pedaal Holpyp 8' + Praestant 4'; Part 2: Man 1 Holpyp 8' + Praestant 4' + Octaav 2' + Quint 1 1/2; Pedaal same as above. Temperament: Silbermann Erfort Dom. WAV file is available in RAR format: here (17.5 MB). Instrument: The Arp Schnitger organ at Eenum in Groningen, The Netherlands (1704) - Samples by Hauptwerk.nl

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


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