In the Chorale Prelude on ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’, BuxWV211, an embellished version of the melody has a dignified accompaniment which seems to convey something of the solemnity of the season of Advent, and the increasing ornamentation draws attention away from the fact that those accompanying voices have a fair share of the melodic material. The concluding bars suggest very strongly that J S Bach knew this work, for they seem to anticipate the final bars of his ‘coloratura’ setting of the same melody (BWV659).
from notes by Relf Clark © 2011
