Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637–1707):
Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BuxWV 208 (chorale prelude)
with
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750:
Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist BWV 385 (four-part chorale setting)
Selections 25 and 26 from Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores, edition 1
Selection 26 (Buxtehude) from Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores, edition 2
Click here for Buxtehude score (external link: not the score that was in the previous editions)
Click here for Buxtehude audio (performed by Jean-Charles Ablitzer)
Click here for Bach score (transposed from A to G)
Click here for Bach audio (synthesized)
Text and Translation
| 1 Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, | Now pray we to the Holy Spirit |
| 2 Um den rechten Glauben allermeist, | For true belief above all, |
| 3 Daß er uns behüte | That we should be protected |
| 4 An unserm Ende | Until our end, |
| 5 Wenn wir heimfahr’n aus diesen Elende. | When we come home from these miseries. |
| 6 Kyrie eleis. | Lord have mercy. |
—Martin Luther