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Dec 22, 2021 · Commentary: It’s been a year to rethink Bach’s ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos. A scene from choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s “The Six Brandenburg Concertos” at Opéra National de ...
- Mark Swed
- Classical Music Critic
- mark.swed@latimes.com
- They redefined the concerto and took it to new heights. These concertos are in concerto grosso, literally ‘big concerto’, form, which is when a large number of instruments takes on solo roles.
- They were subversive and spoke truth to power. Johann Sebastian Bach composed these pieces during his years spent as a court composer to the music-loving aristocrat, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen.
- They have a deeply beautiful two-chord movement. These concertos, with inventive harmony, complex counterpoint, multi-layered fugues and interweaving textures, showcase Baroque music at its most intricate, detailed and mind-bogglingly intellectual, extreme.
- They fought fascism. Adolf Busch was a very famous violinist in 1920s Germany, In 1927, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Busch denounced Nazism and emigrated to Switzerland and then to America.
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Jun 16, 2012 · Bach Playlist: The Brandenburgs. Bach wrote his six Brandenburg Concertos for the Margrave of Brandenburg, Christian Ludwig, possibly hoping to secure employment in the margrave's court. Lacking the necessary virtuosic players, the margrave never heard the concertos, and the manuscripts weren't published until 1850, one-hundred years after Bach ...
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Some might think of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, symbol of German disintegration and reunification, when listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s matchless collection of concertos. But the works’ popular title comes from its association with Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg and uncle of Prussia’s Friedrich Wilhelm I, the Soldier King. Bach trave...
Near-supernatural in inspiration, and groundbreaking in their diversity of invention, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertosstand among the greatest creative achievements of the 18th century. Bach transcended existing concerto models by Vivaldi and other Italians by exploring innovative combinations of orchestral instruments. Each of the set’s 14 different i...
If you’re old enough to remember Arthur Negus then you’ll recognise the opening of Brandenburg No.3 as the theme music to the original Antiques Roadshow. The same movement also appears on the soundtrack scores to Die Hard, Moll Flanders and Ridley Scott’s Hannibal. It’s also used as a sonic cliché for anything old in daytime TV programmes. The most...
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos 1 – 6 performed by Claudio Abbado and Orchestra Mozart “Does the world need another set of Brandenburgs? Yes when they are as freshly minted and as adventurously sonorous as this marvellous set from Abbado’s young period-style Orchestra Mozart … these are peerless highlights of baroque music.” – The Guardian Bach’s Bran...
Margrave of Brandenburg. After hearing Bach play, the Margrave asked Bach to send him some of his compositions. Two years later, Bach gathered six concertos he had composed between 1718 and 1721 and sent their full scores and orchestral parts along with a dedication in French to the Margrave, all enclosed in a green leather folder. But
Sep 30, 2013 · Today, we'll hear three of the six Brandenburg Concertos, written by Johann Sebastian Bach. The Brandenburg Concertos are excellent examples of music from the Baroque Era. Bach 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.
Life. Henry was a son of Margrave John I of Brandenburg and his second wife, Jutta, the daughter of Duke Albert I of Saxony. The origin of his nickname "Lackland" is not known. Henry was more than fifteen years younger than his brothers John II, Otto IV "with the arrow" and Conrad I and was therefore likely to be excluded from governing when ...
