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Cantata CIV.: Du Hirte Israel, hore 2 . Second Sunday after Easter (“Misericordias Domini”) ( c. 1725) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts [1917]

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Bach’s Chorals. Part I: 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 2.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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Cantata CIV.

Du Hirte Israel, hore2 . Second Sunday after Easter (“Misericordias Domini”) (c. 1725)

The melody of the concluding Choral is Nicolaus Decius’ “Allein Gott in der Hoh’ sei Ehr’ ” (see Cantata 85).

The words of the Choral are the first stanza of Cornelius Becker’s Hymn, “Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt” (see Cantata 85):

  • Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt,
  • Dem ich mich ganz vertraue;
  • Zur Weid’ er mich, sein Schäflein, fuhrt,
  • Auf schöner, grüner Aue:
  • Zum frischen Wasser leit’t er mich,
  • Mein’ Seel’ zu laben kräftiglich
  • Durch’s sel’ge Wort der Gnaden.

  • B.G. xxiii. 116.

Form. Embellished (2 Ob., Taille1 , Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 13.

[2 ] An English version of the Cantata, “Thou Guide of Israel,” is published by Novello & Co.

[1 ] The Taille was a Tenor Bassoon.