An organ recital in progress: part 73

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 Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott.


Johann Sebastian Bach’s (1685-1750) hauntingly beautiful setting of the chorale Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott is believed to have been written around 1704. The earliest surviving source comes from an early 18th-century manuscript of music by Bach, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, and Weckmann. Though there has been some question as to the validity of the Bach attribution, it remains in place to this day.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music