ExclusiveBach: Brandenburg Concerto No.6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051 - I. [No Tempo Indication]

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051 - I. [No Tempo Indication]. This beautiful piece was played by US Army Strings. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

Bach wrote his six Brandenburg Concertos, we can assume that, based on their instrumentation, he composed them for the small but excellent group of hand-picked musicians working at the court of Köthen in what is now Germany. As Kapellmeister there from August 1717 until he left for Leipzig in 1723 to take up his greatest career post, he wrote a lot of original music for the ensemble. There is strong evidence to suggest that, when Bach traveled to Berlin to purchase a new harpsichord in autumn of 1718, he performed in the palace of Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg, the son of the then Great Elector. Being a great lover of music, the prince probably commissioned several concertos for his own musicians. Bach obliged by sending the six concertos dedicated to the prince and later designated by an early biographer as "The Six Brandenburg Concertos".

The Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 is in three movements, the first without tempo indication by Bach himself although often performed fast or moderately fast (allegro or allegro moderato); the second a slower, or adagio, movement; and the third, once again fast and dance-like, much like the final movement of the Concerto No. 5. Scored for strings and harpsichord, it is especially unusual because of the absence of violins. The score specifies two different types of viola, the viola da gamba (viola of the knee), actually somewhat out of style by Bach's time, and the viola as we know it today, then known as viola da braccio (viola of the arm). It is two of the latter type that are the work's solo instruments. Tonight's performance will, of course, be performed on modern violas, two solo and two accompanying.
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The video was captured by Christian Schlegel in Ueschinental, Switzerland, and edited by Wenjing Ma.




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