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Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...

Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1-7; Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Italian Concerto. Murray Perahia, piano and conducting the Academy of St.

To celebrate Monica Huggett’s 25 years as artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the ensemble will launch “Monica’s Dream Season” with Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” – all six of them – ...

Bach's glorious concertos exist in many different forms and here are some new hypothetical reconstructions. Viktoria Mullova and Ottavio Dantone offer the C minor BWV 1060 in a lively version for ...

The two great forces in J.S. Bach’s life were music and family - somewhat inevitably, for a man who had twenty children. Bach first wrote the concertos on this disc as a young composer finding his ...

This is a very curious disc, in which a top-flight pianist seems to be indulging his nostalgia for a pre-lapsarian view of Bach - a return to a time before issues of style and period instruments ...

It was an invitation from Karajan to the Salzburg Festival 20 years ago that launched the worldwide career of the Istanbul-born Pekinel twins. Turkey’s answer to the Labèque sisters are an exciting ...

The 18th-century Italian concerto had a profound influence on Bach. He obtained copies of concertos by Vivaldi, Torelli and the Marcello brothers and learnt their styles by arranging them for solo ...

In these days of uncertainty, music can provide a safe haven, an escape, or even a boost of energy. I've found all of that and more in a new recording of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the ...