Bach, Johann Sebastian: Bist du bei mir. Cello & Piano. PDF
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The beautiful aria Bist du bei mir BWV508, arranged for cello & piano.
Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden (If you are with me, I go with joy) is an aria from Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel’s opera Diomedes, which was first staged on 16 November 1718. The aria is best known as Bist du bei mir, BWV 508, a version for voice and continuo found as No. 25 in the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
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 you are with me, then I will go gladly
unto [my] death and to my rest.
Ah, how pleasing were my end,
if your dear hands then
shut my faithful eyes!
Grades 4–6
Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: EMA152
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