"J S Bach: Ach Gott und Herr BWV 714a" genre: Baroque
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	This version from the recently discovered Neumeister Chorales starts with a dirge-like setting of the chorale and is then followed by the familiar but intriguing double canon at the octave, with that haunting simplicity Bach can impart to four related lines of music.
	Credits: Martin Dyde for Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ; Brett Miles for Buzard Opus 3 samples
	Story Behind the Song Varies slightly from the Yale manuscript in that the tenor voice is soloed out on the Krummhorn stop. Lyrics German: Ach Gott und Herr, Wie gross und scwer Sind mein begangne Sünden! Da ist niemand, Der helfen kann, In dieser Welt zu finden. 2. Lief ich gleich wit Zu dieser Zeit Bis an der Welt ihr Enden Und wollt los sein Des Kreuzes mein, Würd ich doch solchs nicht wenden. --Johann Major, 1613 English: 1. Alas, my God, my sins are great, My conscience doth upbraid me; And now I find that at my strait No man hath power to aid me. 2. And fled I hence in my despair In some lone spot to hide me, My friefs would still be with me there And peace still be denied me. --tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1863

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