Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614

J. S. Bach's New Year's Day chorale prelude, "The old year has passed," employs chromaticism to indicate difficulty and sadness. It's extremely appropriate as the world moves into 2021, and reflects back on a very difficult 2020. Jonathan Dimmock plays the Hauptwerk digital reproduction of Arp Schnitger's Sint Michaëliskerk organ (1720), Zwolle, Netherlands.