Bach, the Universe and Everything: Lost in Both Time and Space
MUSIC
GIBBONS Drop, drop slow tears
JS BACH Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn (You true God and Son of David), BWV 23
Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohnwas was also potentially another work Bach submitted in application for the job as music director in Leipzig (the other being Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22 that was performed in February 2024’s event). The unusual final movement interweaves the chorale with instrumental interludes in a German setting of the ‘Agnus dei’ from the Mass.
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