As we learn from the musical prodigy, Glenn Gould, Bach entitled this cantata “Stand firm against sin”. In this piece, he uses musical ideas Gould characterizes as a “wonderful and tortuous art of cross-relation and suspension” which “Bach always reserved for those subjects on which he felt most keenly, most deeply.”
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Stand firm against sin
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