"J S Bach: O Mensch Bewein BWV 622" genre: Baroque
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	This pinnacle of expressiveness for organ seems even more heartfelt when the hghly ornamented melody is played by the slightly reticent oboe, accompanied by with fervor by English Horn, Bassoon and Cello.
	Story Behind the Song Part of an ongoing series of transcriptions of Bach's Liturgical Year for sampled instruments. Lyrics German: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, darum Christus sein's Vaters Schooss äussert und kam auf Erden. Von einer Jungfrau rein und zart für uns er hier geboren ward, er wollt' der Mittler werden. Den Todten er das Leben gab und legt' dabei all' Krankheit ab, bis sich die Zeit herdrange, dass er für uns gekopfert würd', trug uns'rer Sünden schwere Bürd' wohl an dem Kreuze lange. English: O man, bewail thy grievous fall, For which Christ left His Father's hall And came to earth from heaven. He of a virgin maiden pure Was born, of man the Savior sure, And came earth's ills to leaven. The dead He raised again to life, The sick He loosed from pain and strife, Until the time appointed That He for us should shed His blood And take on Him our sin's dark load, Stretched on the Cross accursed. --Tr. C. S. Terry

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