Donald Satz wrote: >BWV 53 - This programmed aria is just one movement of a larger mourning >cantata. The music is gorgeous and quite elegant, and Muller-Bruhl >invests it with a comfortable pacing that "fits like a glove". Those >not familiar with this aria will likely be surprised at Bach's use of >bells, a device he rarely employed in his compositions. As a lover of this music who has collected "Schlage doch" in particular for many decades beginning in the late 1960s when a wonderful and eccentric NYC DJ played the Roessl-Majdan/Scherchen recording five times consecutively on the radio, I am appreciate to Don for calling this recording to my attention. I have a Yahoo group devoted to this cantata by Georg Melchior Hoffman to whom currently it is generally ascribed. http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/GMHof/ I believe that I have uploaded there 12 recordings of this cantata with bells. There are at least two more which I only have on LPs which is beyond my limited technical abilities to digitize. The uploaded recordings are about equally divided between female altos/ mezzos and counter-tenors. I generally abhor textless CDs but as this is Naxos and cheap, I guess we can forgive the situation. Best wishes, Yoel