October 4
Today marks four months since I stopped making the Cantata of the Day posts that I made for four months. It is fitting that today be a Sunday and the next work to review written for the First Sunday in Advent, the beginning of the new liturgical year.
This work has, since the start of this project, been one of my favorite movements from all of the Bach Cantatas, a feeling shared by the great Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has included it among several albums he compiled highlighting the very best of Bach’s works. It is a chorale fantasia on one of the original chorales written by Martin Luther himself, the Advent hymn Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Now come, Savior of the heathens), “the number one hymn to begin the liturgical year in all Lutheran hymnals.”
I will let the merits of the writing speak for itself …
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