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This setting of Psalm 112 (Beatus vir qui timet Dominum) was written by Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) who was two years Bach's senior and was taught by Kuhnau, who was Bach's predecessor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. After his death, his music fell into obscurity but began to be revived in the 1990s by the Musica Antiqua Köln. This psalm setting is for two voices, two instruments (though the score says that the two parts can be doubled by violin, oboe, and recorder, which explains the range not quite fitting) and continuo. It calls for some very quick elocution from both voices and some wonderful virtuoso passages. I think my favorite effect occurs on the text "dentibus suis fremet" (he shall gnash with his teeth) where the voices alternate broken chords so that the aggregate is a wall of sixteenth notes for three bars.