Bach - Chorale Nun ruhen alle Wälder BWV 392 | Netherlands Bach Society

The melody of the chorale Nun ruhen alle Wälder, performed here by the Young Bach Fellows of the Netherlands Bach Society, is much older than Paul Gerhardt’s text and was better known to the words of ’O Welt ich muss dich lassen’. Bach used this melody in various places, with a variety of texts and always in different harmonic versions. One of the places Bach used this chorale is in the St John Passion, in the chorale ’Wer hat dich so geschlagen’, which may make it sound familiar to listeners. The pitch, for example, is almost identical in both settings, and Bach used the same ascending chromatic line in the bass in the transition to the second movement. This practically unknown version keeps pointing intuitively yet invitably towards that much more familiar chorale in the St John Passion. Recorded for the project All of Bach on 11 May 2021 at the Walloon Church, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel and consider donating For more information on BWV 392 and this production go to All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material on For concert dates and tickets go to Young Bach Fellows Netherlands Bach Society Bethany Shepherd, soprano Oscar Verhaar, alto Jasper Dijkstra, tenor Jaap van der Wel, bass Carlos Leal, cello David Westcombe, traverso Masako Awaji, harpsichord