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Dietrich Buxtehude
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Es ist das Heil, BuxWV 186 Click to Listen, [2:7]
Typical Buxtehude treatment: lightly ornamented improvisatory chorale on the G.O. 2' Octav, played 2 octaves lower, with two voices on the Positiv and Pedal keeping up as best it can. Impulse reverberation has been added. Instrument: Orgue de salon (1988) - Samples by Eric Bricet and Jean Yves Garet

Chorale Text
German:
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
Von Gnad' und lauter Güte,
Die Werke helfen nimmermehr,
Sie mögen nicht behüten,
Der Glaub' sieht Jesum Christum an
Der hat g'nug für uns all' getan,
Er ist der Mittler worden.

English:
Now is to us salvation come
By grace and purest favor.
Our works, they help us not at all,
They offer no protection.
But faith shall Jesus Christ behold,
Who hath enough done for us all
He is our intercessor.
--Z. Philip Ambrose, translator (used by permission)

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