Death and Bach's Cantatas

I got to go to a church service I didn’t lead recently.

And not just any service.  Lutheran Vespers with a Bach Cantata tucked in the middle.

It was glorious.  The sermon was Bible-based but also expanded on the Cantata, which included such lines as "Human, you must die!"  "Put your house in order."  Like Handel's Messiah, many just like the pretty sound, but if you read the words in the program, you get full-boar Christian truth.

Written probably for a funeral, this Cantata is titled for its first line, "God's time is the best time."

Give a listen here.