Allegro (0:06)
Adagio ma non tanto (7:00)
Allegro (13:06)
The Brandenburg Concertos are a group of six concerts by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1046-1051). They are dedicated to the Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1677–1734), the stream had met in winter 1718/1719 in Berlin. In September 1721 he sent him the score with an extensive dedication. The title Brandenburg Concertos was coined by Philipp Spitta incurred in its 1873–1879 Bach Biography and has now been generally adopted. Bach’s original title is “Six Concerts Avec plusieurs instruments”. The six concerts have a high stylistic and structural diversity. In its mixture of different historical and forward-looking elements to form a personal, yet universal form of expression.
