Bach Akademie Australia will present J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos to Sydney on Friday 14th November 7:30pm, at The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith, and from Saturday 15th to ...

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 ...

JS Bach came from a long line of established musicians. He was born in 1685 in Eisenach, Germany the son of Johan Ambrosius Bach, also a fine musician. Orphaned at the age of ten, he went to live with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Traverse Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kevin Rhodes recently presented four of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with guest violin soloist Tina Chang Qu. The Traverse Symphony ...

The Brandenburg Concertos are one of the greatest musical CVs ever assembled. In 1721 Bach dedicated his score – in flowery French – to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, not in fulfilment of ...