◄ Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

► Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht


3. Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
(from the Andernach Songbook, 1608)

This song belongs to a smaller group of Christmas carols set in a minor key, corresponding to the lyrics that connect Jesus' birth to his eventual sacrifice of life.

The imagination that this fate will have to be borne all alone, leads to the instrumentation of a solo piano and a kind of brittle, dissonant harmonization of the melody.