- Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin, BWV 616
[2:42]
A perfect expression of the Nunc Dimittis, part of Das Orgelbüchlein (aka The Liturgical Year). Known in the Anglican liturgy as The Song of Simeon,
the text has a bit of the German Pietism which contrasts the travails of everyday life with the tranquility of death. Registration: Chorale - SW
Gemshoorn 8' + Blokfluit 4'; PD (end) Subbas 16';
Prelude - top three voices SW Gemshoorn 8' + Tremulant; bottom manual voice Holpijp 8' with SW coupled; PD Subbas 16' with SW coupled. Impulse
reverberation added.
Midi File available.
Instrument:
Vermeulen Brothers Organ at Congregation "Vloedschuur," Heteren, Holland (1959) -
Samples by Hauptwerk.nl
- Chorale Text
German:
Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr' dahin
In Gottes Wille;
Getrost ist mir mein Herz und Sinn,
Sanft und stille
Wie Gott mir verheissen hat:
Der Tod ist mein Schlaf worden.
English:
In peace and joy I now depart
For God has called.
I trust in Him with soul and heart,
Calm, prepared.
God doth e'er His promise keep,
And death's a few years' sleeping.
--Tr. C. S. Terry
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