Thirty-five years later, the choreographer brings to them the largest forces she has ever worked with: sixteen dancers from different Rosas generations, along with the complete B’Rock baroque ensemble under Amandine Beyer. In those six concerti grossi, Bach deploys the instruments of the baroque orchestra in different, often audacious constellations. They remain vastly gratifying in their own. Anne Teresa De Keersmaekerĭuring her 1980 stay in New York, when Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was rehearsing her celebrated Violin Phase to the music of Steve Reich, the only other recording playing in the studio was Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Bachs six monumental Brandenburg Concertos are regarded as some of the greatest and most groundbreaking works of the Baroque period. While using modern instruments and a piano rather than a harpsichord, the Busch Brandenburgs are no mere relics. You'll hear the hunting horns playing during the polacca.Programme & calendar / Dance Like no other music, Bach’s carries within itself movement and dance.
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Included in the fourth movement is a polonaise - or in Italian it's called a polacca. Johann Sebastian Bachs Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. The fourth movement is a strange little minuet and for a bit inside it, it's only oboes and a bassoon playing for about a minute and a half. And, through the course of music history, you'll see far more concertos that have three movements than four. 1 - not only is it the only Brandenburg Concerto with 4 movements - it's the only concerto Bach ever wrote that had four movements. Listen for the three-note half-step or whole-step motive (a motive that's central to several of the Brandenburgs).Ī couple other odd things about Brandenburg Concerto No. Bach treats many different instruments to. There are these sad cries from the oboe and violin - it's absolutely gorgeous. Along with the St Matthew Passion, the Brandenburg concertos belong to the highlights of Bachs best-known works. The second movement is a passionate, musical sigh. This Concerto features the hunting horns, oboes, violins and bassoon at various times, as well as a smaller violin called the violino piccolo. Virtuosic, audacious, and overflowing with richly imaginative music. 1 sounds the most generic to me at its beginnings, but there are tiny details that pop out of the texture. Few musical works are as beloved as the six Brandenburg concertos by J.S. Bach didn't write the concertos from scratch he had already written all six of these in some way, shape or form, but Bach handpicked them for the margrave to demonstrate his versatility as a composer.Īnd the Brandenburgs are diverse - about as diverse a set of six pieces you'll find.Įach one of the six concertos features instrumental soloists, or highlights specific groups of instruments, meaning we can (more or less) call them each a concerto grosso.īrandenburg Concerto No. The Brandenburg Concertos are excellent examples of music from the Baroque Era.īach wrote these sometime before the year 1721 - he met a music lover named Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg who asked Bach to send him some concertos. Today, we'll hear three of the six Brandenburg Concertos, written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Sebastian Bachs six Brandenburg Concertos might still be languishing in obscurity, known only to Baroque specialists, if it were not for the invention. Mov. Conducted by Karl Richter, the Mnchener Bach-Orchester performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Last week on Learning to Listen, we heard some of the specific characteristics of Baroque music, like the sound of a harpsichord, or certain ways composers wrote melodies, or listening for music that has lots of trills and decorations to the notes. The Brandenburg concertos are widely regarded as some of the best orchestral compositions of the Baroque era.
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