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I love this piece and fortunately have my own recording and like others I never tire of it.

Without a doubt this is the finest version of this duet. Although written for a soprano and a counter tenor Mme Hermann makes this a perfect combination.

Excelente versión.

Bellísimo. Conmovedor.

Whenever I listen to this piece I imagine kids in clean white clothes playing in green field on a sunny day.

Here I am listening, listening again to this luminous perfect sound. Could my heart hold more? Let me see.

Magnifico ! 🦋 The best version of this Duet... for me ! I listen to it often, with joy and pleasure ! 💕 🌿 🌺

This wonderful recording brings back so many fond memories.

The most beautiful piece of music....ever.

This is indeed the BEST recording of this duet ever! I first heard it in the 70's while in College. I never tire of it!

Bro this shit slaps

Genius...

Funnily enough there was a nun fashion show in a Fellini film around 1970 where this music was playing as the nuns were roller skating on the runway with their too large starched floppy white headgear.

Maravilhoso!!!!!

Maravilhoso!!??

Я послушал 100 раз и не могу остановиться

Brillant!

wowzers!

One of the loveliest versions of this stunning duet. 👍👏❤️

Perfección!!

My 🐱 Juju and his pal "Big Fellah" dance about every time they hear this and both agree that Papa Bach is the best, better than their catnip and Friskies Treats!

That's it. WFMT/Chicago used it to sign off. I like the one on Angel w/ Edith Mathis, s and Sybil Micheloe, a. I'm not looking for any correct historic performance standards on this one.

Love this!

Excellent, although I prefer a more Baroque singing style as opposed to the more operatic style used here.

Extremely beautiful and joyful!

My favorite cantata, ever!

Nick, is this you? I'm trying to find your Twitter. I've been meaning to look into something very paradoxically interesting. You'll see why when you get into it more. Plus it'll open your mind... more than it is. Don't let your brain fall out 🤓

Exquisite.

I am so glad to see the great BACH Lover so happy to listen to this very beautiful piece which he heard 61 years ago. and have enjoyed reading comments of these nice people who have shared their sentiments here . Greetings from Agadir Morocco.

Does anyone know what key this is in?

My heart is in rapture at this one

sublime , magnifique , la perfection , BACHserait heureux

a favorite of the Bach aficionados at Oberlin circa 1958-60.....

wonderful, there was exactly had this album at home when I was a teenager. When later on I bought a different version did not remember the name of the cantata, but immediately recognized, especially the duet that at that time I already accompanied the singing... not even thinking that the dream could come true. .

Have just bought this on eBay for 74p!! Bliss!!

Quelle belle harmonie que ces deux voix !

Unspeakably beautiful.

Sí, Jerry Turner, era el hallazgo del siglo, pero no tuvo la suficiente promoción, ella la hermosa mujer, dueña de una voz magnífica. En fin, injusticias del arte y de la vida!

Thank you NNN for posting this music. Felix Prohaska also used Stich-Randall for his Cantata No. 51. The aria "Hoechster, mache Deine Guete" is a gem! Stich-Randall recorded Cantata No. 51 twice, once with Prohaska and again with Karl Ristenpart. I wonder how professionals compare the two recordings. The Ristenpart may be competent, but the Prohaska--An angel sings to me as I fall asleep. Intimate connection to the music. Only the Ristenpart is on TH-cam.

Many, many years ago I spent six weeks in Berkeley, taking a couple of summer school courses, one of which started at 8 am. The local public radio station, KPFA, went on the air at 7 am, playing this duet. So I heard it every morning for six weeks. This recording? I don't remember. But this is a lovely performance.

I heard this on KPFA on a Sunday morning in my office at MSRI in the Berkeley Hills. I will never forget that experience. For our own good we better listen to the message conveyed here.

This Vanguard/Bach Guild issue is hands-down still the best recording ever of this marvelous duet. Some people say that it's the happiest music that the often sombre Herr Bach ever wrote. The soprano and mezzo are, the tell us, "hurrying (toward Jesus) with weak yet eager steps". In other recordings the singers seem to take a running pace, and in yet others a leisurely one. Here the pace seems just right. Soprano Stich-Randall is very rightly praised for this recording, but alto Dagmar Hermann is wonderful as well. The only saving grace of the number one Jack Nicholson stinker movie, "Man Trouble", is that it contains this aria (with Ellen Barkin voice synching the soprano part).

Bach on a merry-go-round. Utter dizziness. Pure heaven.

Sublime. Heart stopping. Oh that we have ears to listen and hearts to know.

que dire c'est fantastique

Teresa Stich-Randall is here the most suited spiritual vector of producing on the mind the highest sensations of feeling and reason. Thank you for posting this video !

It's a shame that almost every asylum tb hospital and sanatorium in mass and ri are almost all knocked down so many could have been saved and reused

I am in Heaven. I am in Heaven. With God and a triumph of Angels. And Bach on his throne. Heaven.

I remember buying this album at the former record superstore and Chicago icon, Rose Records many years ago. It was one of the first classical "choral" records I ever purchased and fell in love specifically with this duet. I have played it over and over again. As one comment stated, it is not just the precision of the singers, it is also the wonder of the music. It is a perfectly crafted duet that stands as well alone as within the cantata. Still one of my favorite duets of all time!

HUH ? 1954 ! I do love this !