Bach meets Frederick the Great (2003) - English subtitles

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This clip is from a 2003 movie named "Mein Name ist Bach" (My Name is Bach) which was a French/German/Swiss collaboration.

In 1747, Johann Sebastian Bach arrives in Potsdam for the baptism of his first grandchild. Frederick II of Prussia summons Bach to the castle that very evening. Determined to provoke the grand musician, he calls on him to improvise a fugue for six voices based on a tricky little melody of his own composition. Bach, exhausted by the journey and offended by the young king's arrogance, is reluctant to get involved. Thus the first act of hostilities between the King of Prussia and the maestro from Leipzig have begun.

Bach is played by Vadim Glowna (1941-2012) and Frederick by Jürgen Vogel (b. 1968). The clip appears approx. 13 minutes into part 1 (see below).

The music played at 1:53 - 2:51 by the King and his musicians is an excerpt of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Flute Concerto No. 3 in A Major / Wq 168 (3rd movement, Allegro assai). It is also known as a cello concerto in the same key (Wq 172). At 4:12 - 4:34 Bach plays the beginning of his Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 903). At 5:28 - 5:37 he plays the beginning of his chorale setting "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring) from cantata 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life). The chromatic theme presented by the King at 6:25 - 6:39 (or rather played by Bach at 7:36 - 8:03 ...) formed the basis of Bach's Musical Offering (BWV 1079) in 16 movements.

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