Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. They are actually a collection of ideas that Bach composed over a ten year period while he ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are so many recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos that a unique selling point is helpful for any new ...

No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

Six incredible works of art, and six reasons they changed everything. In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach carefully packaged together six of his finest concertos and sent them to a Christian Ludwig, ...

Jane Jones tells how Bach found a new harpsichord, a new wife and looked for a new job. At the beginning of the 18th century, all the decent music jobs were linked with either church or state, and ...

Yet the look, and sound, of these six pieces “for several instruments”, rather obsequiously dedicated by the job-seeking Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, can still startle audiences. Last ...

Though there are already CD versions of the Brandenburg Concertos to suit every taste, Richard Egarr's recordings still manage to carve out a distinctive niche of their own. Anyone with perfect pitch ...

John Butt and the Dunedin Consort have already recorded Bach's Matthew and John Passions, as well as Handel's Messiah, and his oratorio Esther for Linn, but this is their first venture into purely ...

J.S. Bach came from a family of successful musicians and was one of the most prominent composers of the Baroque period, writing six concertos for the noblemen of Brandenburg. Bach took on the work in ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...

Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...

(6) Brandenburg Concertos, Movements: No. 1 in F, BWV1046 (vn picc, obs, hns, bns & stgs Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Diego Fasolis, Conductor (I) Barocchisti (6 ...