For the first Sunday in lent I asked Madison Lightfoot to sing a beautiful piece call Bist Du Bei Mir by Gottfried Heinrich Stötzel. The piece has often been attributed to J.S. Bach, but is stylistically significantly different from his work. Many of you will recognize the tune, it's sung with a number of different texts and is even found in some hymn books. She's going to be singing an English version.
Bist Du Bei Mir is a simple and melodic composition and I chose pieces from the same era, the Baroque era, with similar attributes for the prelude, offertory, and postlude. Somewhat ironically, the prelude, Prelude in G minor, has also been attributed to Bach (even the edition I just bought says that it's by Bach) but it was probably written by one of his pupils.
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