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Re: Name of this J .S. Bach song?         

Group: rec.music.classical.recordings · Group Profile
Author: Kerrison
Date: Jun 2, 2008 15:15

On 2 Jun, 22:43, John Bryant googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 10:30 pm, "Wagner Fan" comcast.net> wrote:
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>> "John Bryant" googlemail.com> wrote in message
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>>news:8cf788bc-170a-412f-81b9-11f8d8da8df9@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> On Jun 2, 7:42 pm, b-tel...@online.no wrote:
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>>> Hi!
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>>> Can somebody please tell me the name of this song?
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>>> cd with this track?
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>>> It says in the description that it is the Bach Cantata: "Eine Feste
>>> Burg."
>>> But i think description must be wrong, It didn't sound like this
>>> track.
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>>> Any help appreciated
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>> It's certainly not the melody normally associated with 'Ein' feste
>> Burg ist unser Gott', apart from that, I'm not quite sure what it is.
>> Sorry!
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>> JB.
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>> It sounds like its from one of the Cantatas - not from the Passions or
>> Christmas Oratorio.  Wagner Fan
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> Difficult to say. Bach wrote so many cantatas, but I must confess that
> I've never really liked his choral music.
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> JB.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Call up Eine Feste Burg in the You Tube search field and you get what
sounds like the same music in a lower key sung by this church
choir ... seemingly the first movement of the Cantata ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax4YA9tURps

But here's the Lutheran tune you thought you were going to hear ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8iQUHV4J5g
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