FYI: This piece is the first thing recorded on the "Golden Record" attached to the Voyager space probes. So with any luck, and perhaps thousands or even millions of years after humanity is gone, the work of Earth's greatest musical genius will still be out there somewhere.
Reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live skit, where a NASA scientist appears on a talk show and announces that they been contacted by aliens in response to the Voyager recording. The message: "Send more Chuck Berry."
Indeed it is! It's on the right hand set of scores, second from the bottom. Set of B notes Set of A notes Set of C notes, then Set of H notes (Germans use H for B-flat)
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This is really the genious of Bach isn't it, simple motifs and melodies turn into such beautiful harmony. Its like painting a most detailed pattern and also shining a light on it. I cant even describing it but it is like in northern baroque painting, people focused on the detail and pattern of the figures, clothing, enviroment and symbolism. Whereas in baroque paintings of Italy they focused in motion and anathomy of figures and so on. But Bach is like the greatest combination of the both.
This recording is a little better than most about letting the ripieno be heard. I know the concertino is supposed to be dominant, but Bach wrote so much wonderful counterpoint in the ripieno that is consistently not heard in most performances because the ripieno are instructed to play so softly. If I wasn't looking directly in the score, I wouldn't hear a note the violas were playing, and there's some nice syncopation among the upper strings that gets lost. I had a recording of the Brandenburgs long ago where the ripieno were allowed to play out at full volume, and it was the most wonderful, rich audio experience I ever had with these pieces. I wish I could find that again. Most of the performances you can find are so thin and anemic with the ripieno barely playing.
No one is talking about how the solo violin at 2:00 has this gorgeous sequence that starts with a seemingly deceptive syncopated upbeat (as four sixteenth notes) that transitions beautifully into that circle of fifths progression. Looks like Bach took some inspiration from Vivaldi there
Has to be my favourite Brandenburg! Absolutely timeless. This WILL be being played in 1,000 years time, I truly do believe that, as people who know the beauty and excitement in this music just want to share that feeling!
Oh man I hope u recover soon. Actually I've been learning the Alto Recorder ever since the lockdowns in the US started back in March 2020! Best of luck to your study of the instrument as well!
@@rhymeswithyetiv2331 thank you! I haven't been practicing as much due to work picking up, including music gigs. It's still tough for me to do this piece at fill speed but I know I can get there🙂
@@giocosovelasco That's so sweet of you to ask! I am doing very well now in many ways. My COVID case was mild. I've been dealing in many rare recorders and other instruments these days🙂
To think long after our civilization is gone and the Earth is turned to dust or engulfed by the sun, this music will be streaming for millions and billions of light years into the universe as mankind's greatest achievement in tonality.
He should be really proud of this recording. Absolutely perfect, really does justice to this great masterpiece. And thank you so much Gerubach, for your fantastic scrolling videos.
The octave jump echos at 3:38 between the 2nd Violin/Viola & the Lower strings is pretty cool. But just remember... I'm no Bach scholar or expert. I'm just the messenger.
Esta música está gravada em um disco de ouro a bordo na nave Viking que foi lançada ao espaço na década de 80. A nave ja ultrapassou recentemente os limites de nosso sistema solar. No disco estão gravados outras músicas e outros sons.
Beautiful indeed. Especially at 11:17 & 12:15 where the upbeats of the solo violin are doubling the the orchestra's 1st violins highest note and filtering out the soloists downbeats. Just remarkable. BWV 1048 on the way.
It tells us at the end it is the English Consort under Trevor Pinnock. They do a splendid job with a fairly slow, steady tempo for the first movement but kept buoyant and dancing appropriately. The score is really useful and helps even those who don't read music to appreciate how much is going on!
One of oyr favourite classically made music works from thr renown composer Bach. Trivia. Did you know this classical piece is on the Voyager spacecraft sent from earth as a greeting to whom ever finds it in the far most reaches of space.
Qué buena versión! ësta es la velocidad correcta de estos allegros, no a 180 km/ h, por algo Bach puso bien clarito: Allegro Moderato, que en ese siglo sería aún más moderato que en la actualidad.
La "presentación" de los instrumentos solistas en el primer minuto es una cosa hermosa pero, ¿Qué opinan de la hermosa melodía de fondo que hace el clave y el cello en cada presentación? Uff, definitivamente creo que es el más bello de los 6 conciertos. Es un placer, no me canso de repetirlo y de encontrar nuevos tesoros en cada escucha.
Fun fact. The piccolo trumpet was included in Penny Lane by the Beatles because they heard David Mason playing it in this piece and asked what the “unusually high trumpet” was
i remember being filled with so much disdain having to hear this for music analysis every day for like a whole semester in high school. 3 years later and it still induces so much stress 🥴
I see you studied in the IB programme the same time as me. Thank you for this comment. I was trying to remember what the other piece was. I always preferred this to the other. Easier to analyze.
@@MichealHolt i always felt like kodály was easier to analyze just because his piece was easier to listen to. our entire class was way more into the dances of galánta, so the analysis was10 times smoother than brandburg's simply bc we actually wanted to hear it.
Yeah, Bach is really good at making multiple lines going on at once so it's hard to keep track of everything going on. Yet somehow, it still all fits together...
I agree. At this tempo one can actually hear the counterpoint!! So many performers these days seem to think they're in a contest to show how nimble their fingers are, thus killing the music (especially in the case of Brandenburg 2) with such a frantic tempo that it turns into a light bouncy triviality. (Could it be that 'experts' with doctorates in Musicology influence performers to take those idiotically fast tempi? Whatever it is -- desire to show off nimble fingers or/and fear of displeasing the antiquarians with tempi that are "too slow according to recent scholarship" -- it's a kind of plague of musical stupidity.) Thank God for recordings like this one!
I'm with you, too. Before finding this version, I listened to many others on TH-cam and it felt like the players were in a race to finish the piece as quickly as possible! This is my favourite Brandenburg concerto, so I'm picky about its presentation. Bach's music brings so much joy to my life and I was thrilled to see that this is the version I have on CD. Thanks so much for posting, gerubach. ❤
I didn't expect to see this one posted so soon either! The fewer red lines, the faster it gets done I suppose. I also agree on the overload of counterpoint. There is so much going on in this piece that one's eyes are going everywhere. At least Bach gives us a break in the 2nd movement and at 10:39 right?
I recognize this concerto from The Great Courses, it's used in the course on Bach and the High Baroque, the one on Beethoven's symphonies, and several others as a lecture intro.
I just follow one or two lines I find interest in at different points. The bass is most important to me. I sometimes hum it as well. Good brain exercise. The mind tends to want to sing the topmost melody.
Yep. Once I get familiar with the overall piece, I try to focus on what's not obvious, one by one following a fabric of melodic threads that support the main theme. That's where the composer's genius, if there is any, gets truly revealed.
In the second movement, there are lots of cases of two quarter-rests next to each other in a measure. Is there a reason why they use two quarter-rests instead of a half-rest?
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FYI: This piece is the first thing recorded on the "Golden Record" attached to the Voyager space probes. So with any luck, and perhaps thousands or even millions of years after humanity is gone, the work of Earth's greatest musical genius will still be out there somewhere.
Or it crashes on a planet with primitive aliens who worship Jimmy Carter as a god.
Reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live skit, where a NASA scientist appears on a talk show and announces that they been contacted by aliens in response to the Voyager recording. The message: "Send more Chuck Berry."
So it should be the first!
NOTHING STAYS AWAY FROM THE WRATH OF GOD
@@Boysermusic mock who
This is just astonishing. As is all of Bach's music. No words can describe his work.
I can't imagine what music would be like without this greatest of all composers.
I can't tell you how great your channel has been for me studying Bach's work. Thank you so much for all these videos.
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5:21 - 5:31 There's his name, spelled out in the bass.
whose?
Indeed it is!
It's on the right hand set of scores, second from the bottom.
Set of B notes
Set of A notes
Set of C notes, then
Set of H notes (Germans use H for B-flat)
Oh, I didn't know about the German H! That's pretty neat! :)
What you meant is that Germans use B for B-flat and H for B.
Yeah, my bad!
The use of bass for modulation at 03:56 is exquisite. Incredible how Bach managed to channel the 4th chakra on the score.
Because it is in the key of F, the frequency of the heart chakra. (Fresno) 💚
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so beautiful... even if i don't like classical music, this part alone 1:56 is enough to get me into it
This is really the genious of Bach isn't it, simple motifs and melodies turn into such beautiful harmony. Its like painting a most detailed pattern and also shining a light on it. I cant even describing it but it is like in northern baroque painting, people focused on the detail and pattern of the figures, clothing, enviroment and symbolism. Whereas in baroque paintings of Italy they focused in motion and anathomy of figures and so on. But Bach is like the greatest combination of the both.
It saddens me to think of all wonderful music composed by J.S. Bach that has been lost. What we have are treasures.
not only that, but imagine all the pieces that quite literally died when he did
Out of maybe 1000 pieces, we've lost (or has been unfinished) about 20. so bout 2%
@@incription20 too many
This recording is a little better than most about letting the ripieno be heard. I know the concertino is supposed to be dominant, but Bach wrote so much wonderful counterpoint in the ripieno that is consistently not heard in most performances because the ripieno are instructed to play so softly. If I wasn't looking directly in the score, I wouldn't hear a note the violas were playing, and there's some nice syncopation among the upper strings that gets lost. I had a recording of the Brandenburgs long ago where the ripieno were allowed to play out at full volume, and it was the most wonderful, rich audio experience I ever had with these pieces. I wish I could find that again. Most of the performances you can find are so thin and anemic with the ripieno barely playing.
No one is talking about how the solo violin at 2:00 has this gorgeous sequence that starts with a seemingly deceptive syncopated upbeat (as four sixteenth notes) that transitions beautifully into that circle of fifths progression. Looks like Bach took some inspiration from Vivaldi there
It does sound like some Vivaldi
The secuence that begins in 01:56 is just... Uuff, amazing.
I know, I wish it was longer...
This is the first classical music I heard in my life. It's still one of my favorites ever. I just love it so much!
The only movie that will ever contain Johann Sébastien Bach's Brandenburg Concerto number 2 is Martha Stewart Incorporated.
This is my all-time favourite Brandenburg Concerto, especially I like the trumpet, oboe, violin and recorder and performed so brilliantly throughout.
to be honest this is one of THE most beautiful version ... so warm, clear ... awesome tempo !!!
Has to be my favourite Brandenburg! Absolutely timeless. This WILL be being played in 1,000 years time, I truly do believe that, as people who know the beauty and excitement in this music just want to share that feeling!
I’m a fan of the gate myself
Voyager took this masterpiece to space, a gift from the earth for our Galactic Brothers
I did not know that. What better music to share 😊
It's just showing off of course.
I want to believe
I have COVID and I'm using this video to learn the recorder (flauto) part. Thanks, dude!
Oh man I hope u recover soon.
Actually I've been learning the Alto Recorder ever since the lockdowns in the US started back in March 2020!
Best of luck to your study of the instrument as well!
how are you? hope ur ok :)
@@rhymeswithyetiv2331 thank you! I haven't been practicing as much due to work picking up, including music gigs. It's still tough for me to do this piece at fill speed but I know I can get there🙂
@@giocosovelasco That's so sweet of you to ask! I am doing very well now in many ways. My COVID case was mild. I've been dealing in many rare recorders and other instruments these days🙂
@@NoHomerS oh that's good! glad youre ok. may you continue your musical journey and god bless you!
Nº2 and Nº3 are my favourite Brandenburg Concertos. The first and third movement of this concerto are an absolute masterpiece!
Simply beautiful. That kind of music can only be inspired by God.
Ritornello 1 - 0:37
Ritornello 2 - 1:35
Ritornello 3 - 1:56
Ritornello 4 - 2:41
Ritornello 5 - 3:03
Ritornello 6 - 3:33
Ritornello 7 - 3:52
Ritornello 8 - 4:41
Ritornello 9 - 5:05
Wow!!!
Very good!
טוב מאוד!
I do love me some Ritornello
رااائع
To think long after our civilization is gone and the Earth is turned to dust or engulfed by the sun, this music will be streaming for millions and billions of light years into the universe as mankind's greatest achievement in tonality.
¡Cómo se le pudo ocurrir esto a Bach!!! Una de las primeras personas que buscare cuando vaya al Paraíso será buscarte Bach
He should be really proud of this recording. Absolutely perfect, really does justice to this great masterpiece. And thank you so much Gerubach, for your fantastic scrolling videos.
Thanks so much, Gerubach! I never knew that reading the score could be such an enjoyment.
The octave jump echos at 3:38 between the 2nd Violin/Viola & the Lower strings is pretty cool. But just remember... I'm no Bach scholar or expert. I'm just the messenger.
3:38
This is actually the most joyful composition by Bach
The second movement is so beautiful, almost ethereal.
It's sublime, but so are the first and third mvts.
Esta música está gravada em um disco de ouro a bordo na nave Viking que foi lançada ao espaço na década de 80. A nave ja ultrapassou recentemente os limites de nosso sistema solar. No disco estão gravados outras músicas e outros sons.
Voyager 1 ?
This piece of art is out of this World
Easily the best rendition of this concerto, restrained, refined and not overly wanky like contemporary renderings.
Nice of you to make this. THANK YOU!
Forever floating in the vastness of space.
Beautiful.
Yes, in Karl Richter's version!!!
That is, if it's not itercepted first ;)
Beautiful indeed. Especially at 11:17 & 12:15 where the upbeats of the solo violin are doubling the the orchestra's 1st violins highest note and filtering out the soloists downbeats. Just remarkable. BWV 1048 on the way.
It tells us at the end it is the English Consort under Trevor Pinnock. They do a splendid job with a fairly slow, steady tempo for the first movement but kept buoyant and dancing appropriately. The score is really useful and helps even those who don't read music to appreciate how much is going on!
I recognized the exact recording as it was one of my first CD purchases in the 1980s. I still have it.
What a glorious piece of music. I love playing along with it.
JS Bach - a real genius and No 1 of all composers in history of mankind. Thanks for the scroll sheet.
my favourite Brandenburg Concerto. thanks!
One of oyr favourite classically made music works from thr renown composer Bach. Trivia. Did you know this classical piece is on the Voyager spacecraft sent from earth as a greeting to whom ever finds it in the far most reaches of space.
1000 times thanks for the scroll sheet
Amazing!!! I play this on my 1737 Klotz regularly.
riesce sempre a mettermi di buonumore...a farmi perfino ballare...
seeing your work -- Bach moving past me in ear and eye -- is soo moving. I am so glad you do this.
Flute part is definitely for an Alto Recorder in F - and its heavy going but a great sight-reading exercise !
The third movement - so happy and trilly!
Ian Jammes Also a wonderful fugue...reminds me of the Well-Tempered Clavier
The flute is so cute!
Qué buena versión! ësta es la velocidad correcta de estos allegros, no a 180 km/ h, por algo Bach puso bien clarito: Allegro Moderato, que en ese siglo sería aún más moderato que en la actualidad.
Everything I look at is sliding to the right now thanks
La "presentación" de los instrumentos solistas en el primer minuto es una cosa hermosa pero, ¿Qué opinan de la hermosa melodía de fondo que hace el clave y el cello en cada presentación? Uff, definitivamente creo que es el más bello de los 6 conciertos. Es un placer, no me canso de repetirlo y de encontrar nuevos tesoros en cada escucha.
Fun fact. The piccolo trumpet was included in Penny Lane by the Beatles because they heard David Mason playing it in this piece and asked what the “unusually high trumpet” was
Yes, right, and Dave said that he got 68 pound for the most famous trumpetsole in the pop music.
i remember being filled with so much disdain having to hear this for music analysis every day for like a whole semester in high school. 3 years later and it still induces so much stress 🥴
the link passage was literally the only part any of us could get behind
we eventually moved on to kodály, we were all much happier
god im stressed just thinking about it
I see you studied in the IB programme the same time as me. Thank you for this comment. I was trying to remember what the other piece was. I always preferred this to the other. Easier to analyze.
@@MichealHolt i always felt like kodály was easier to analyze just because his piece was easier to listen to. our entire class was way more into the dances of galánta, so the analysis was10 times smoother than brandburg's simply bc we actually wanted to hear it.
Simplemente maravilloso!!!
I think I need at least four brains to follow this
Yeah, Bach is really good at making multiple lines going on at once so it's hard to keep track of everything going on. Yet somehow, it still all fits together...
Imagine how many he needed to write it O_o
Don’t follow. Feel.
Start at 0:36
Masterpiece of presentation after Dutch provocatively cool ones at double normal speed, look at me, not look at god/jsb!
gerubach A treasure to mankind. Thank you sooooooooo much for scrolling this score!!
Nice videos yours, thanks for the uploads
this is the RIGHT SPEED!
I agree. At this tempo one can actually hear the counterpoint!! So many performers these days seem to think they're in a contest to show how nimble their fingers are, thus killing the music (especially in the case of Brandenburg 2) with such a frantic tempo that it turns into a light bouncy triviality. (Could it be that 'experts' with doctorates in Musicology influence performers to take those idiotically fast tempi? Whatever it is -- desire to show off nimble fingers or/and fear of displeasing the antiquarians with tempi that are "too slow according to recent scholarship" -- it's a kind of plague of musical stupidity.) Thank God for recordings like this one!
I'm with you, too. Before finding this version, I listened to many others on TH-cam and it felt like the players were in a race to finish the piece as quickly as possible! This is my favourite Brandenburg concerto, so I'm picky about its presentation. Bach's music brings so much joy to my life and I was thrilled to see that this is the version I have on CD. Thanks so much for posting, gerubach. ❤
Beautiful. Thank you very much.
I didn't expect to see this one posted so soon either! The fewer red lines, the faster it gets done I suppose. I also agree on the overload of counterpoint. There is so much going on in this piece that one's eyes are going everywhere. At least Bach gives us a break in the 2nd movement and at 10:39 right?
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Thanks for uploading!
what a beautiful construction
J.S. Bach -what a genius!
There are no words in the world to express how much I love u, Gerubach xD. Great job with the videos, keep doing them =P
Esse vídeos são muito bons!!!!!
Good luck on the Ib analysis tomorrow guys
Ayo. Thanks it's gonna be an absolute hell hole
Holy shit our teacher didn't teach us anything
@@user-ys2st1eo9o Same. This test tomorrow is going to be rough. Then European History in the afternoon. Why did I do this to myself again?
jake wareham good luck boys
@gattsuaran so true. One down
The andante is longing, a sigh, a expectation for eternal beauty
un sommet,bach est magnifié
I recognize this concerto from The Great Courses, it's used in the course on Bach and the High Baroque, the one on Beethoven's symphonies, and several others as a lecture intro.
And this notes are so excellent performed it's an addiction.
Yes, I’m in rehab right now
Beatiful
Yes, and yes!
Right so who got an analysis of this piece? - A struggling IB Music student
quizlet.com/208654354/ib-music-exam-the-brandenburg-concerto-no-2-flash-cards/
Best I could find. Boutta fail this test, baby!
0:37 1st movement
5:56 2nd movement
9:48 3rd movement
Invigorating!
This is great!
Ce concerto est gravé sur le disque de Voyager 1 en route pour l'espace infini , à l'image de l'immensité de la musique de Bach
I Love Karl Richter..When he Performed this Piece from BACH..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤗🤗🤗
that feeling of inadequacy when you can't follow sheet music
I have a degree in music composition, and even I have trouble following it when they split the screen up like this!
I just follow one or two lines I find interest in at different points. The bass is most important to me. I sometimes hum it as well. Good brain exercise. The mind tends to want to sing the topmost melody.
Yep. Once I get familiar with the overall piece, I try to focus on what's not obvious, one by one following a fabric of melodic threads that support the main theme. That's where the composer's genius, if there is any, gets truly revealed.
9:48 if you played the chapter 3 of Mother 3 you recognise this tune
In case you gonna search, its the song Monkey Love Song
No freakin way
THE BEST!!!!
Allegro assai brings me memories from 1998's Baby Bach with that kinetic toys in the BG
300 YEARS OF BRANDENBURG CONCERTS
Espetacular!
No wonder William Buckley loved Bach.
This piece supposedly inspired the trumpet in the background of the Beatles' Penny Lane.
Awesome
Interesting, its quite good. Im studying for piano history 2. So boring but this got me going
That trumpet part though... So high....
High G.....man that's high....
I hate this kind of limp-wristed playing, but thank you for providing the scrolling score.
2:01 Circle of 5ths
Lindo!
9:48 My childhood is coming back to me 😁
Buff Helpy I SEARCHED FOR SO LONG
I only came for this part because it was used in rusty and rosy
10:38.....pure joy
Starts at 36 seconds for those who aren't looking to wait
Bello
The truth is out there, and so is this song. Hauling ass across the galaxy at 38 thousand miles per hour. You’re welcome aliens.
In the second movement, there are lots of cases of two quarter-rests next to each other in a measure. Is there a reason why they use two quarter-rests instead of a half-rest?
which orchestra ply in this recording?
What trumpet is this being played on? F? Bb? C? Eb?
gerubach, what did you use to raise the pitch of the recording to A440?
Does anyone have the F trumpet part for Bb transcription?