Dies ist eine mittelschwere Bearbeitung des bekannten und beliebten Chorals aus Kantate Nr. 147. Das Stück eignet sich für Hochzeiten, Gottesdienste und Liederabende.
For flute and string orchestra or flute and piano. The manuscript of this work was found amongst the composer's papers after his death, and it was probably written in 1913.
The pianist Myra Hess (1890-1965) became indelibly associated with Bach after she began playing 'Jesu, joy' by ear in 1920. Her arrangement of the Adagio (offprinted here from OUP's Bach Transcription...
