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Christ lag in Todesbanden sung by the Newman Choir

Christ lag in Todesbanden is a Lutheran chorale based on the Sequence chant of Easter Sunday Victimae paschali laudes. Martin Luther adapted this chant into German in 1524 and Johann Sebastian Bach harmonized it in his Cantata BWV 4. In English, it is commonly sung to the English adaptation “Christ Jesus lay in death’s strong bands.”