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Actus Tragicus

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Actus Tragicus

Name often given to Johann Sebastian Bach's church cantata no. 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit. It was composed about 1707 for a funeral.



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Bach's Actus tragicus (BWV 106) and those in Peter Holman's workshop on performing French Baroque orchestral music grappled with unknowns as fundamental as intended pitch (a = ?
But on Sunday at Armitage Bridge the early music group Kirklees Baroque plays some of Bach's many shorter choral works for the Easter season, including the magnificent cantata Christ Lag In Todes Banden and Actus Tragicus, "the finest masterpiece of Bach's youth," says artistic diretor David Vickers.
 
 
 
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