My Favorite Bach Brandenburg Concerto

A quick look at the Instrumentation of Bach's Brandenburgs...and a closer inspection of my favorite...

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[Isegawa]

"This is the first selection of music on the Voyager spacecraft. The first. Four and a half billion years from now, when the sun exhausts its fuel and swells to engulf the Earth, this expression will still be out there, travelling, four and a half billion years... that is, if it's not intercepted first. Imagine, Fox, if another civilization out there were to hear this. They would think, "What a wonderful place the Earth must be"

[maxleibovich]

Glad to know I’m not the only one particularly moved by this particular trumpet section, always listen to the concerto for this part specifically !

[jaikee]

The Brandenburgs are an explosion of creativity, beauty and joy and the best introduction into baroque music.

[Zulszaek]

Thr Brandenburg Concertos are possibly my favorite pieces of music ever written, I'm glad you're bringing some more attention to them

[hoangkimviet]

Well, what a surprising preference for me, as I thought you chose the third Brandenburg Concerto! I really knew another gem of Bach after this video.

[alexandrusimo]

hi! the 6th concerto is composed not of violas and cellos, but of of viole da brazzo (regular or, perhaps, baroque violas) and viole da gamba, which are now not so common and while they might reasemble the cello they are decidedly different instruments; as the viola gave birth to all of its family (violin, cello) which nowadays compose the orchestral strings, the viola da gamba also gave birth to its own family, of which only the double bass (which ended up mixing the design of the two families) remains in common use in the orchestra.

[ashermay]

Thank you for talking about the Brandenburg Concertos! I regrettably haven’t listened to them in full yet but you’ve given me a reason to.

[lukasflorczak]

It’s so wonderful it will live on for eternity, as the opening selection on the Golden Record

[grandpa]

The finale of the sixth was used by NPR as an intro to Garrison Kieler's "Prairie Home Companion" Saturday at 6. That is until "Me Too" ended his career. Always reminds me of a simpler time, Weekend pause, my older brother (gone 18 years), and NO violins!

[donaldmcalpin]

The Progression of Fifths strikes again! Thanks to you know I now know why certain pieces of music really sing to me.

[TheExiledDefenfer]

I love the Brandonburg concertoes. My absolute favorite in No. 5 for that energetic harpsichord solo. It gives me chills when the violin and the flute die away and the harpsichord hits that first expectant chord or so before rocketting into the solo.

[prototropo]

At 06:00, the moment that so beguiles our narrator (and myself), uses the circle of fifths, yes, but not for its own sake; rather it becomes the raw material for a "sequence, " which is a musical phrase iterated three times, either rising or, as here, descending, in harmonic progressions that pass through a segment of the circle of fifths. In so doing, Bach also employs grace notes and passing tones such as appoggiatura and suspensions--elements that technically violate the strict pursuit of harmony, but by contrapuntal license are entered as ornaments of extraordinary esthetic beauty and sonic emotional power. The sequence, when executed by a genius like Bach or Mozart, is a feat that my favorite music theory professor described as a melodic gymnastic vault, flying through three trapeze parabola with all the grace that art can supply. It was a gesture that Baroque and Classical composers loved, but which came to be rarely used by Romantic composers, and avoided altogether in Modernist, jazz, folk, pop, stage and cabaret works. One huge exception is the cornball kitsch "Autumn Leaves, " whose main runway was built for the last, lumbering sequence.

[guavaguy]

My first introduction to classical was Handel's sarabande.

[francoismagne]

Your video revives very fond memories... This concerto was my first musical shock, when I was around 13. I was so mesmerized I played Dad's record literally to death, since it was a vinyl. The music quickly became so deeply engraved in my mind that it felt as if it were mine. Even after discovering the other five, this one remained special. 40 years later, simply hearing a few notes from it is enough for me to be overwhelmed with a strange mixture of nostalgia and excitement.

[dashmeurs]

I really love the First Brandenburg Concerto, I guess everyone's favorite is different, so, we can see How Bach wrote concertos that everyone can enjoy

[CCChew-rb]

Please make a similar video of Bach's Keyboard Concertos❤

[joaopaulochavespinto]

00:21 "Now, Bach's 6 Brandemburgs are the most famous set of concertos ever written"
Vivaldi 4 seasons????

[PMA]

Wasn't the new Brandenburg airport also lost for decades?

[Burrito]

02:38 This piece is the 3rd Movement, not the 1st Movement.

[_CaptainCookie]

1 is my favourite because it has 2 horns 😍📯