The hymn 'Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille', performed here by Charles Daniels and Menno van Delft for All of Bach, was top of the spiritual hit parade in Bach’s day. Nowadays, his chorale 'O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden' is most famous, but at the time people sang the long poem 'Gib dich zufrieden' at least as often, to many different melodies. Bach chose two of them for the Notenbüchlein. The message is rich yet very practical: even if God seems faraway (after all, life’s no picnic), in the end he offers salvation and the day of peace will come.

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Recorded for the project All of Bach on May 12th 2018 at the Bartolotti House, Amsterdam. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel [ Ссылка ] and consider donating [ Ссылка ].

This recording was made possible by the support of Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds.

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Charles Daniels, tenor
Menno van Delft, organ

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