Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, the instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.

Today, I present Johann Sebastian Bach’s In dir ist Freude.


Johann Sebastian Bach’s (1685-1750) chorale In dir ist Freude BWV 615 comes from the New Year section of the Orgelbüchlein. Composed during Bach’s time as organist at the ducal court in Weimar (1708-1717), the ‘little organ book’ was augmented after 1726 during his time as cantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music