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 ...
For any Twin Cities lover of the arts, there’s usually a particular December date they make every year. For theatergoers, it might be the Guthrie’s “A Christmas Carol” or — a tradition of more recent ...
Whenever Handel and Haydn Society concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky leads the ensemble through a full performance of J.S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos, audience members often comment something to the ...
Coinciding with the October Brandenburg performances, the ensemble will also release two albums featuring Bach on British record label AVIE. Stories by Paris Wolfe Enclave matcha café opening in ...
It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...
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 ...