I heard
“Sleepers Awake” this past Sunday, performed on the organ for the recessional
at Grace Episcopal Church in the Woodlawn community (Birmingham, Alabama). “Sleepers Awake” is the English rendering of Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Awake,
calls the voice to us) by Johann Sebastian Bach. According to Wikipedia, the
song is “a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the chorale
cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on
25 November 1731. It is based on the hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die
Stimme" (1599) by Philipp Nicolai. It is a well-known and delightful
musical setting.
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