Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No.6 in F Major BWV 1057 - 1/3

[Rilberich]

0:14 New message from Skype... Ok, that was stupid. :D

[fuckyouassholes1000]

js bach - the only real musician ever in all of human history or of all time - EVER - no other so called musicians are even musicians....by name only...js bach - the ONLY REAL MUSICAN to have EVER lived...

[fuckyouassholes1000]

SoliDeoGlori8550 - thank you for posting this divine music!!!!!!!

[aram01201]

If this is Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 I, than this would be a weird version.

[MarSwanlake]

No es uno de los Conciertos de Brandeburgo?

[bigapplebucky]

This music is great to reconcile a stubborn checking account by.

[caddencadden]

haha the harpsichord transpositions are jokes!

[MrRafaelamadeumilani]

the better musics, the less exhibiteds videos!

[Terrdemarzielle]

Trevoer Pinnock is so bloody good

[malicant123]

my favourite composer.

[FaultYesteryear]

sounded like water and birds towards the end, amazing.

[JamuZ1234]

sound like Brandenburg concertos >_<

[elijohua]

@JamuZ1234 This is brandenburg concerto number 4 isn't it?

[pianiplunker]

@elijohua Yes and no. This is a latter arrangement of Brandenburg #4. The violin part is transcribed for harpsichord here.

[wcbroccoli]

@elijohua This is Bach's harpsichord arrangement of Brandenburg Concerto #4, probably made for the famous Leipzig Collegium public concerts he directed in the 1730s. But all the Brandenburg Concertos are themselves arrangements of earlier versions of those concertos - some (like #1) possibly written when Bach was court organist/concertmaster to the Dukes of Weimar, the rest written for, or at least performed by, Prince Leopold's superb musicians when Bach was the prince's capellmeister.

[MrRafaelamadeumilani]

@wcbroccoli thanks for the classes!!

[TheCrazyCello]

@wcbroccoli Not Necessarily. Undoubtedly Brandenburg 1 is a rearrangement and obviously appears in its Brandenburg form as a cantata sinfonia. However the remaining five were most likely written in Köthen. If we disregard the 1st, all can be performed using the instrumentalists Bach had at his disposal there. It seems he added the 1st to complete a set of 6 to send to the Margrave of Brandenburg for whatever reason, speculative or commission.

[TheCrazyCello]

@TheCrazyCello This is perhaps supported by the fact that many movements from the five "Brandenburg Originals" were rearranged, like the first, at later dates into canata sinfonias and other concerti, such as this - whereas that which was already a rearrangement - the 1st, remained unchanged.

[MrRafaelamadeumilani]

@JamuZ1234 but it is brandenburg concert transcription

[majav15mg]

@bersa888 Don't fuck with Gnr... they are nothing compared to Bach... but they are to rock music what Bach is to classical...

[majav15mg]

@bersa888 Well if you mean present Gnr.. you are totally right... lololol

[pila406]

@bersa888 I don't agree. I rate the performance and not the composition, and there are many performances and not all of them are good.

[brouwerdropd69]

@bersa888 I respectfully disagree. Whatever your thoughts on the importance of the performer versus the composer, the apotheosis of the former is certainly not a phenomenon of the contemporary world. In Bach's time, for example, composers were seen essentially as musicians. They would play almost exclusively their own music, improvising most of it. It was only at the end of the 19th/beginning of 20th century that the composer became more important (and even separate from) the performer.

[brouwerdropd69]

@bersa888 I agree that they're not comparable - I was just arguing that the ascendancy of the composer as separate from the perfomer is a relatively recent phenomenon. I do, however, think that the cult of the performer applied in Bach's case. It certainly did for Mozart, who, of course, preceded Paganini and Liszt. My main source is Harold C. Schoenberg's book, which I know is imperfect.

I didn't realize the castrati were still around in Bach's time, learn something new every day.

[brouwerdropd69]

@bersa888 No, I meant Harold C. Schonberg, the music historian, who wrote a history of the great pianists which gives some interesting overview of changing performance practices, though its primary purpose is to be more a menagerie of characters. The subtitle is "From Mozart to the Present," but it does, in fact, go a little bit into the late harpsichord period of Bach, CPE Bach et al.

I will check out that video!

[wcbroccoli]

@brouwerdropd69 There's a recording, dating from the early 20th c.., of an Italian castrato. To my knowledge, they were all Italians. The practice of making a boy a castrato was outlawed, even in Italy, yet it was still done. Castrati were not used in German music making. You only heard them if you went to hear an Italian opera, as Bach often did when he visited Dresden, the musical capital of 18th c. Germany. Handel wrote many of his opera arias for castrati.

[wcbroccoli]

@brouwerdropd69 Prior to growth of public concerts, the highest professional rank a composer achieved was capellmeister to a noble or royal court. Bach was capellmeister to the Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Koethen. Haendel was capellmeister to Duke/Elector Georg of Hanover (before he became King George I of England); Hadyn was capellmeister to Prince Esterhazy. Mozart's father was vice-capellmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Beethoven's grandfather was capellmeister to the Elector of Koeln.

[wcbroccoli]

@brouwerdropd69 The composer was always important. But up until the time of Mozart and Haydn, the primary sources of employment for musicians was town, church or court, not the stage or the concert hall. It wasn't unilt the late 18th c., with the growth in popularity of the public concerts, this began to change. The public concerts also created an interest in hearing music of dead composers. Before then there was little antiquarian interest; the demand was mostly for contemporary music.

[pianiplunker]

@bersa888 I recently heard a radio interview where Flea from the chili peppers played the prelude #1 from the WTC. It wasn't horrible.

[polymath7]

I was a little surprised not to see this referred to as 'Brandenberg concerto no. 4'

I suppose this shows my musical laity.

[apendicita]

I don't know, I could swear it's the same song too. It might have 2 names o_O or something

[impossimadnescyAJ]

This is an arrangement of Brandenburg concerto no. 4. So Yeah.

[wcbroccoli]

The Brandenburg Concertos (so-called after they were found in the Brandenburg library in the 19th century) are themselves "arrangements" of earlier works.

[pianofforte]

First "trino", "swing-it" in a keyboard koncert.

[firebreathone]

Greatest musical genius Ever!