This instrumental arrangement came while I was thinking about all those we’ve lost to COVID and other causes the past year. This is a tribute to those people we’ve personally known, and all those we didn’t and now will never have the chance to. In the late 1600s and early 1700s, Germany was predominantly Lutheran […]
The tune to “Dives and Lazarus” is used in many folk songs throughout western Europe, including “Gilderoy” and “Crooked Jack” in Scotland, “The Star of the Country Down” in Ireland, and “The Unquiet Grave” in England. Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged the tune in his composition Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus for the 1939 World’s […]
May 23, 2023 – I received a lovely recording of the “I Need Thee Every Hour” part of this medley, adapted as a vocal arrangement. This amazing, beautiful performance is by Katherine Wallace. I absolutely love it! May 17, 2024 – I found a piano tutorial someone created of this arrangement. It’s much appreciated!
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in the early 1700s, as part of the final movement of the Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben cantata (“Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life”). The original German lyrics differ quite a bit from the traditional English lyrics, and strongly focus on […]
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