Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F by Bach with period instruments
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This is how the Brandenburg Concertos should be played. I definitely prefer baroque music played on period instruments to modern interpretations.
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a poetry for good i always enojy this music
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@Amiduffer The dumbass morons orchestra.
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Oh I'm no conductor. In fact I've never even worked out how the conductor's gestures correspond to the sounds the orchestra produce. I have a friend who is a gongist for the Anchorage Philharmonic, and sometimes when listening to a particularly kickass piece, I'll "air conduct" -which sends her into paroxysms of laughter.
I'm merely a collector.
I happen also to own an air baton, which I'm lending to another friend who's to conduct an upcoming performance of Cage's '4:33'.
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Sounds like a mash-up.
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This is my favourite interpretation of Concerto No. 1. It's a pity audio quality isn't better.
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That happened to Jean-Baptiste Lully.
And for an extra touch of authenticity, the conductor is not waving one of those little white sticks, because in Bach's day they had not yet been invented. :)
KufrAkbar 3 years ago 3
When were batons invented and by whom?
Amiduffer 3 years ago
@Amiduffer
The baton, much like the piano or the automobile, evolved gradually with many different designers and builders introducing features over the course of several decades; but it is generally agreed that the first fully functioning modern baton was invented in 1879 by the German engineer Otto Heilmann.
I happen, by the way, to own an authentic Guineri cedar baton (dated 1678 and much neglected) which I'm paying the lordly sum of nearly 5,000$ to have restored to performance condition.
polymath7 1 year ago
@polymath7 Wow. I'm slightly amused by the amounts people spend on items like retro computers, but $5000 for a piece of wood. What group do you conduct?
Amiduffer 1 year ago