[sam_whiskey]

My favorite-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUYZoguhEQ

[beethovenfan]

My favorite also.

[SES1066]

My favorite- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUYZoguhEQ

I prefer a slower tempo to this beloved hymn. This Youtube has some of the hymn's history that adds to this interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEhJS8OYglg

[niteowl77]

Lots of old Lutheran and German Reformed types claimed that the English translations lacked the power of the original German. My grandmother learned Ein feste Burg as a child. I remember her gesangbuch sitting on a dusty, low shelf of an end table- obviously from the Victorian era, with blackletter fonts and written in a mysterious language. The notion of that prematurely old woman - she really seemed like she belonged to the generation before hers - ever being a young farmer's daughter singing hymns in a prairie church was beyond my ability to imagine.

[plain talk]

Ah — A might Fortress. Great piece of music.