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Bach Cantata No. 39 'Give the Hungry Man Thy Bread'

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(Brich dem hungrigen dein Brot)
Alice Moxon (Soprano)
Esther Coleman (Contralto)
George Parker (Baritone)
The Station Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Herbert A. Carruthers
Relayed from the Alexander Elder Memorial Chapel of the Glasgow Western Infirmary
S.B. from Glasgow

In 1732 thirty thousand Protestants left Salzburg to escape from persecution, and were invited by Frederick William I to settle in Prussia. For the reception of some of these wanderers in Leipzig Bach wrote this Cantata. Its German title is 'Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot.'
There are seven Movements.
(For words of the Cantata see page 441)

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