Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Sunday, December 29, 2019

"Valet will ich dir geben" (TLH #138)


I recorded this on Friday, and on Saturday, I listened to Bach's cantata Christus, der ist mein Leben, BWV 95, which uses this tune in the third movement.  The first verse of TLH #407 "Farewell I Gladly Bid Thee" is a translation of the same text that's in the Bach cantata, so - apparently - that's the original text that goes with this tune.