Bach -The old year has passed BWV 1091 - Bart Naessens | Netherlands Bach Society

Das alte Jahr vergangen ist – recorded here for All of Bach with Bart Naessens – is a four-part organ arrangement of a song for New Year's Eve. Probably it is a work from Bach’s youth, it may even date back to his teenage years in Ohrdruf. In those days, Germany introduced a calendar reform: from then on, 18 February was the last day of the month, and it was followed by 1 March. The chorale melody of Das alte Jahr vergangen ist is just as ambiguous as calendars in Bach’s time. Bach jumps from one key to another, as if he is leaping from 18 February to 1 March.
Bart Naessens, organ
Instrument: Rudolph Garrels, 1732

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