Dame Myra Hess was a respected British pianist who started the famous series of concerts in the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, during World War II. Her arrangement of Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Jesu, bleibet meine Freude) from Bach’s Cantata No.147 was immensely popular in her life time and has remained so since her death in 1965.Notes by Alexander Waugh
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (from Cantata No. 147) Play
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Dame Myra Hess was a respected British pianist who started the famous series of concerts in the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, during World War II. Her arrangement of Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Jesu, bleibet meine Freude) from Bach’s Cantata No.147 was immensely popular in her life time and has remained so since her death in 1965. Notes by Alexander Waugh
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