My Favorite Bach Brandenburg Concerto
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2023
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The Brandenburgs are an explosion of creativity, beauty and joy and the best introduction into baroque music.
Thr Brandenburg Concertos are possibly my favorite pieces of music ever written, I'm glad you're bringing some more attention to them
hi! the 6th concerto is composed not of violas and cellos, but of of viole da brazzo (regular or, perhaps, baroque violas) and viole da gamba, which are now not so common and while they might reasemble the cello they are decidedly different instruments; as the viola gave birth to all of its family (violin, cello) which nowadays compose the orchestral strings, the viola da gamba also gave birth to its own family, of which only the double bass (which ended up mixing the design of the two families) remains in common use in the orchestra.
"This is the first selection of music on the Voyager spacecraft. The first. Four and a half billion years from now, when the sun exhausts its fuel and swells to engulf the Earth, this expression will still be out there, travelling, four and a half billion years... that is, if it's not intercepted first. Imagine, Fox, if another civilization out there were to hear this. They would think, "What a wonderful place the Earth must be"
Well, what a surprising preference for me, as I thought you chose the third Brandenburg Concerto! I really knew another gem of Bach after this video.
I do love No 3, and No 5, and 6...oh and 4 and 1 as well!
Thank you for talking about the Brandenburg Concertos! I regrettably haven’t listened to them in full yet but you’ve given me a reason to.
The finale of the sixth was used by NPR as an intro to Garrison Kieler's "Prairie Home Companion" Saturday at 6. That is until "Me Too" ended his career. Always reminds me of a simpler time , Weekend pause, my older brother (gone 18 years) , and NO violins!
Please make a similar video of Bach's Keyboard Concertos❤
It’s so wonderful it will live on for eternity, as the opening selection on the Golden Record
The Progression of Fifths strikes again! Thanks to you know I now know why certain pieces of music really sing to me.
I love the Brandonburg concertoes. My absolute favorite in No. 5 for that energetic harpsichord solo. It gives me chills when the violin and the flute die away and the harpsichord hits that first expectant chord or so before rocketting into the solo.
My favorite ❤
The fourth is my second 😮
Your video revives very fond memories... This concerto was my first musical shock, when I was around 13. I was so mesmerized I played Dad's record literally to death, since it was a vinyl. The music quickly became so deeply engraved in my mind that it felt as if it were mine. Even after discovering the other five, this one remained special. 40 years later, simply hearing a few notes from it is enough for me to be overwhelmed with a strange mixture of nostalgia and excitement.
My first introduction to classical was Handel's sarabande.
I really love the First Brandenburg Concerto, I guess everyone's favorite is different, so , we can see How Bach wrote concertos that everyone can enjoy
At 06:00, the moment that so beguiles our narrator (and myself), uses the circle of fifths, yes, but not for its own sake; rather it becomes the raw material for a "sequence," which is a musical phrase iterated three times, either rising or, as here, descending, in harmonic progressions that pass through a segment of the circle of fifths. In so doing, Bach also employs grace notes and passing tones such as appoggiatura and suspensions--elements that technically violate the strict pursuit of harmony, but by contrapuntal license are entered as ornaments of extraordinary esthetic beauty and sonic emotional power. The sequence, when executed by a genius like Bach or Mozart, is a feat that my favorite music theory professor described as a melodic gymnastic vault, flying through three trapeze parabola with all the grace that art can supply. It was a gesture that Baroque and Classical composers loved, but which came to be rarely used by Romantic composers, and avoided altogether in Modernist, jazz, folk, pop, stage and cabaret works. One huge exception is the cornball kitsch "Autumn Leaves," whose main runway was built for the last, lumbering sequence.
The trumpet in Bach's time (natural trumpet) was softer than the modern trumpet featured in this video and a better balance was probably easier to achieve. For instance th-cam.com/video/CEJ-xcblCMo/w-d-xo.html
02:38 This piece is the 3rd Movement, not the 1st Movement.
So much agree - as a child though, it's only natural that #2 has the strongest attraction. That trumpet! I was literally crazy for this concerto.
To me it was always the third movement though, with those mesmerizing 46 whole bars of soloists and continuo, culminating in bars 41-46 of the soloists playing without accompaniment at all.
When finally the ripieno comes in on bar 47 it's thrilling. In my own rendition (th-cam.com/video/3EIRhBex3gw/w-d-xo.html), I tried to evoke all the emotions I felt when, as a child, played this concerto on repeat, only allowing Vivaldi's Spring in between listenings :).
1 is my favourite because it has 2 horns 😍📯
Wasn't the new Brandenburg airport also lost for decades?
What about the 4th
What about Brandenburg 1 and 4? Sob Sob, Gulp Gulp!
No.3 because the 3rd movement is a fugue!!
00:21 "Now, Bach's 6 Brandemburgs are the most famous set of concertos ever written"
Vivaldi 4 seasons????
Hmmmm....good point!
Pretty good video, but it very much triggers me that you keep saying that brandenburg 2 is scored with a flute, instead of a recorder. I have no problem with people performing it with a modern/transverse flute, but it's pretty clearly scored for recorder.
Indeed, despite it being written for the flute in many scores, the original manuscript has a recorder. Thanks for the correction and sorry for triggering!
@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 ❤🩹❤🩹❤🩹 as a recorder player I might forgive you someday