On hearing this chorale, the experienced listener might be a little confused. Because what time signature is it written in? And where does the first bar begin anyway? On a first hearing, it could just as easily be either four-four time with an upbeat or three-four time. After Bach’s death, his son Carl Philipp Emanuel included this chorale in a collection of 371 chorales. The majority of them are well-known Lutheran church melodies, but this one is an exception. The melody is not familiar to us from anything else, so it was probably composed by Bach himself.

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Young Bach Fellows
Netherlands Bach Society
Bethany Shepherd, soprano
Oscar Verhaar, alto
Jasper Dijkstra, tenor
Jaap van der Wel, bass
Carlos Leal, cello
Masako Awaji, harpsichord

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