Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

Brandenburg concerto no. 3 for three violins, three violas, three cellos, and basso continuo in G major BWV1048

1. [...]

2. Adagio

3. Allegro

Performed by Concerto Italiano
Conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini

*Winner of the Grammaphone editor's Choice award, and the 2006 Grammaphone award for best baroque intrumental recording

*TRIVIA! Did you know that the first movement of the third brandenburg concerto was used again in one of Bach's cantatas? "Ich liebe den Hochsten von gaamzem Gemute" (BWV174) contains a sinfonia in which this movement is used. However, the score was edited so that there are additional instruments such as three oboes and two horns

Category:

Music

Tags:

• vivaldi
• handel
• mozart
• beethoven
• baroque
• classical
• piano
• harpsichord
• fugue
• clavier
• suite
• organ
• overture
• canon
• pachelbel

[Grobanite122549]

1. is moderato :) love this piece

[HARMONICO101]

@Grobanite122549 No it's not. it has no tempo marking. However, many editors add in one like moderator or allegro or whatever.

[REOGURU]

The world would be a better place if everyone listened to this kind of music.

[HARMONICO101]

@davonindonesia1 ya, tell that to the professional classical musicians who also happen to be specialists in the performance of Baroque music.

Jesus, everyone's an expert here apparently.

[aristootes]

@FengmingViolin

or rather G flat major

[aristootes]

@FengmingViolin

true true, but it seems that in F sharp major

[FengmingViolin]

... this sounds like F major to me, isnt this piece in the key of G major?

[mizzothify]

The last mvt is VERY fast, in fact I find it a little frantic. But it sounds brilliant.

And, holtlynx and ColinMcGraw, Bach was, of course, a Lutheran like most people in Saxony in Bach's time.

[violincool]

Playing this in my school's chamber ensemble :D

It's so much fun! It sounds way harder than it is, which is always a plus.

[anlinwang2]

@raskito3 This is a period ensemble, meaning that they tune down their instruments to the tuning of the 17 and 18th centuries

[ColinMcGraw]

@ColinMcGraw Martin Luther was Catholic before he was excommunicated, im not wrong because Bach lived in Germany which (other than Italy) was the main country still part of the Holy Roman Empire and back then the lords of the land where catholic and odds where that you where too. Sorry buddy, Bach was Catholic not Protestant.

[holtlynx]

@ColinMcGraw I don't know where you got that idea, Colin, but I'm afraid you are just plain wrong unless you think Martin Luther was a Catholic. That would make for a very odd reading of the Reformation.