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YouTube video by Carolyn Sampson - Topic Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht, BWV 105 (Arr. R. Schumann) : III. Wie zittern...

Robert Schumann's 1849 reorchestration of this cantata includes clarinet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnZF...

You can find a translation of the libretto from Bachcantatatexts.org here: bachcantatatexts.org/BWV105
Hans-Joachim Schulze's commentary on this cantata (in a new translation by Jim Brokaw) is available here: iopn.library.illinois.edu/.../bac.../b....

The opening chorus is in the form of a prelude and fugue; both sections are marked by distinctive chains of suspensions. The soprano aria "Wie zittern und wanken" is among the most extraordinary in the repertoire.

YouTube video by Bachstiftung J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 105 "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht" (J.S. Bach Foundation)

The Bach cantata "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht" (BWV 105) was composed in 1723 for this Sunday, the ninth after Trinity, in Leipzig.

The Spring 2025 issue of Bach Notes, the newsletter of the American Bach Society, is now live on the ABS website: americanbachsociety.org/bachnotes.html.

YouTube video by American Bach Society ABS Book Club Author Chat with Prof. Bettina Varwig

A video of the American Bach Society’s Spring 2025 virtual book club meeting is now available on the ABS's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=An76...

Host Carrie Tipton is joined by Bettina Varwig (Cambridge), to discuss the essay collection Rethinking Bach which she recently edited.

Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott BWV 127 / BC A 49 Chorale cantata on hymn by Paul Eber. Estomihi. Part of Chorale Cantata Annual Cycle. First performed 02/11/1725 in Leipzig (Cycle II).

Hans-Joachim Schulze's commentary on this cantata, in a new translation by Jim Brokaw, is available here:
iopn.library.illinois.edu/scalar/bachc...

YouTube video by Bachstiftung J.S. Bach - Julia Doyle sings cantata BWV 127 "Herr Jesu Christ" (J.S. Bach Foundation)

Listen to this work, performed by the J. S. Bach-Stiftung, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm-0...

The Bach cantata "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott" (BWV 127) was first performed on this Sunday, Estomihi, in Leipzig three hundred years ago. The opening movement is a chorale fantasia on the Lutheran hymn "Christe, du Lamm Gottes" featuring persistent dotted rhythms and recorders.