Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1-7; Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Italian Concerto. Murray Perahia, piano and conducting the Academy of St.

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 ...

It’s not all about the Brandenburg Concertos – but it’s a good place to start! Discover the magic behind Bach’s fantastic Baroque orchestral music. Of Bach’s mammoth output of more than 1100 ...

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 ...

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 ...

J.S. Bach may have been light on concertos, but when he did compose them he made sure they were special. Here's where to start with his violin concertos. Concertos don't take up a huge amount of room ...

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 ...

Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are masterpieces of orchestral colour, and these landmark recordings by the Orchestra of the Antipodes on period instruments bring out all the warmth and beauty of the ...

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 ...

Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...