J. S. Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 Actus tragicus

Albert Einstein famously said he would gladly forgo the rest of Bach's cantata oeuvre for more compositions of this kind. Indeed, the way this work unites the selected scriptures and musical devices of funeral service represents both musical world literature and the pinnacle of tradition. In its poetic precision, it is perhaps the greatest musical “novella” of his oeuvre.