Partita über "Lobt Gott ihr Christen"

This is a classical German barock christmas carol. Unfortunately there was a sound problem in my upload of this piece yesterday due to erronous settings when generating the mp3-file for contrebombarde from the wav-file, I recorded in Hauptwerk. So here is the version with corrected sound. A great thanks to RainerS who has helped me to find this problem.

The english translation found on wikipedia has the parols:

Praise God the Lord, ye sons of men,
Before His highest throne;
Today He opens heaven again
|: And gives us His own Son. :|

He leaves His heavenly Father's throne,
Is born an infant small,
And in a manger, poor and lone,
|: Lies in a humble stall. :|

He veils in flesh His power divine
A servant's form to take;
In want and lowliness must pine
|: Who heaven and earth did make. :|

He opens us again the door
Of Paradise today;
The angel guards the gate no more,
|: To God our thanks we pay. :|