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Sheep may safely graze - J.S.Bach


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This is not recorded in response to Fiona the sheep - a big deal in the British press- where a sheep which had been stranded at the foot of a cliff in Scotland for two years was recovered by five young farmers . the good news is the sheep has survived the ordeal .

I was always going to record this beautiful piece.

The wikipedia bit is ..."Sheep may safely graze" (German: Schafe können sicher weiden) is a soprano aria by Johann Sebastian Bach to words by Salomon Franck. The piece was written in 1713 and is part of the cantata Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208 (Only the lively hunt pleases me), also known as the Hunting Cantata.

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