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"Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" ("Actus tragicus"), BWV 106 : 2b. "Ach, Herr, lehre uns bedenken"
by Cantus Cölln
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About ""Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" ("Actus tragicus"), BWV 106 : 2b. "Ach, Herr, lehre uns bedenken"" by Cantus Cölln
A meditation on mortality's brevity, this movement asks for wisdom to number our days. The music is hushed and urgent, a clock ticking beneath a fragile melody. Tension coils between the fear of death and the desire to live rightly, a fragile balance held in a single breath.