Bist Du Bei Mir 🎹 If Thou Be Near 🎹 Jazz Waltz for Clavietta, Violin & Cello 🎹 Stölzel - BACH BWV508

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel #BistDuBeiMir, 1725, Das zweite Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV 508. Jazzwalzer für Clavietta, Violine und Cello, gespielt von Zorii Fain, , Warschau. Meiner geliebten Frau #OksanaFain gewidmet. Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh. Ach, wie vergnügt wär so mein Ende, es drückten deine schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu! 🎹 IF THOU BE NEAR. A TOKEN OF LOVE This aria is from Gottfried Heinrich Stölzels opera Diomedes, which was premiered on 16 November 1718. The presented version for voice and bass of “Bist du bei mir“ is among the pieces Anna Magdalena Bach wrote down as No. 25 in her Notebook 2 from 1725, and is known as BWV 508, mistakenly attributed to her husband I.S. Bach. The theme was a wonderful choice to open his gift music book to Anna Magdalena: a simple song of gratitude, trust, faith in God and faith in his secon