All of Bach - our gift to the world
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All of Bach is the online video platform of the Netherlands Bach Society. In 2014, we started this project with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Music lovers worldwide can enjoy recordings of large-scale concerts, intimate house concerts and virtuoso solo works, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our online treasury for more videos and background information: https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allo... Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/bach?sub_conf...
In March 1721, Bach sent a manuscript from Köthen to Berlin entitled ‘Six concertos with several instruments’ (Six concerts avec plusieurs instruments), dedicated to Christian Ludwig (1677-1734), Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt. This manuscript, which subsequently became known as the 'Brandenburg' Concertos, was Bach’s ultimate view of the most important large-scale instrumental genre of his day: the concerto. A concerto nearly always involves a solo instrument (or combination of solo instruments) and an ensemble. The key idea is the alternation between one or more soloists and the whole ensemble, in a sort of light-hearted competition. In the six 'Brandenburg' Concertos, Bach explores every facet of this genre, with regard to both instrumentation and the way in which he handles the form. All the traditionally used string and wind instruments and the harpsichord appear as soloists, the musical forms range from court dances to near-fugues, and the relationship between the solos and tutti instruments is always shifting. Together, the six concertos thus form a virtuoso sample sheet of the Baroque concerto.