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"Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen" Cantata, BWV 215 : J.S. Bach: "Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen" Cantata, BWV 215: 4. "Was hat dich sonst, Sarmatien" by David Wilson Johnson album cover

"Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen" Cantata, BWV 215 : J.S. Bach: "Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen" Cantata, BWV 215: 4. "Was hat dich sonst, Sarmatien"

by David Wilson Johnson

About This Song

About ""Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen" Cantata, BWV 215 : J.S. Bach: "Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen" Cantata, BWV 215: 4. "Was hat dich sonst, Sarmatien"" by David Wilson Johnson

Bach's recitative surveys Saxony's fortune with measured, oratorical gravity—strings murmuring beneath declamation. Praise and political unease braid together, the calm surface of thanksgiving rippling with awareness of envy and encroaching rivals.