Bach´s Sarabande from the Cello Suite nr 5

Music has a wonderful capacity to comfort and console. It is not
difficult to agree with the great Swedish film director Ingmar
Bergman, who once said:

"We are all living in our prisons, in our dreadful
loneliness, surrounded by cruelty. The gift that music bequeaths us is
to understand that there is a reality of infinite harmony beyond our
earthly exile."

J.S. Bach

The music of J.S. Bach seems to have played a particarly important
role for Bergman, both in his films and in his personal life. Ten of
Bergman´s films feature music of Bach, and in five of these films
Bergman uses a Bach Sarabande. In his last masterpiece, which he also
named Saraband, you can hear the sarabande from the Cello Suite nr 5
in C minor. Bergman also wanted this piece to be played at his
funeral.

Listen to Mischa Maisky play Bergman´s favorite sarabande:

PS
I chose to illustrate this post with a photo of the first snow in my neighbourhood this autumn