Freiburger Barockorchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos No. 1-6 (BWV 1046-1051)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- While functioning as Kapellmeister (Director of Music) to the court of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen (1694 - 1728) J. S. Bach presented in 1721 to Christian Ludwig Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1677 - 1734) the Baroque masterworks known as the "Brandenburg Concertos". This delightful performance of the orchestral works by the Freiburger Barockorchester conducted by Gottfried von der Goltz takes place in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Cothen (Der Spiegelsaal im Schloss Köthen), where the great german composer himself served from 1717 to 1723.
From Wikipedia:
Bach's dedication to the Margrave was dated 24 March 1721. Most likely, Bach composed the concertos over several years while Kapellmeister at Köthen, and possibly extending back to his employment at Weimar (1708--17). The first sentence of Bach's dedication reads:
«As I had the good fortune a few years ago to be heard by Your Royal Highness, at Your Highness's commands, and as I noticed then that Your Highness took some pleasure in the little talents which Heaven has given me for Music, and as in taking Leave of Your Royal Highness, Your Highness deigned to honour me with the command to send Your Highness some pieces of my Composition: I have in accordance with Your Highness's most gracious orders taken the liberty of rendering my most humble duty to Your Royal Highness with the present Concertos, which I have adapted to several instruments; begging Your Highness most humbly not to judge their imperfection with the rigor of that discriminating and sensitive taste, which everyone knows Him to have for musical works, but rather to take into benign Consideration the profound respect and the most humble obedience which I thus attempt to show Him.»
The dedication page Bach wrote for the collection indicates they are "Concerts avec plusieurs instruments" (Concertos with several instruments). Bach used the «widest spectrum of orchestral instruments [...] in daring combinations», as Christoph Wolff has commented (Christoph Wolff, "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician" (WW Norton, New York, 2000). «Every one of the six concertos set a precedent in scoring, and every one was to remain without parallel». Heinrich Besseler has noted that the overall forces required (leaving aside the first concerto, which was rewritten for a special occasion) tallies exactly with the 17 players Bach had at his disposal in Köthen (Besseler's preface to the "Neue Bach-Ausgabe" edition of the Brandenburg Concertos is reprinted with a translation in "Bärenreiter's Study Score of the Six Brandenburg Concertos", Bärenreiter TP9, 1988).
Because King Frederick William I of Prussia (1688 - 1740) was not a significant patron of the arts, Christian Ludwig seems to have lacked the musicians in his Berlin ensemble to perform the concertos. The full score was left unused in the Margrave's library until his death in 1734, when it was sold for 24 groschen (as of 2008, about US$22.00) of silver. The autograph manuscript of the concertos was only rediscovered in the archives of Brandenburg by Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn in 1849; the concertos were first published in the following year. [Malcolm Boyd, Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos (Cambridge UP, 1993)]
For those who don't know about the story behind Bach's Brandenburg concertos. In 1721, Bach composed six “concertos for various instruments”. He dedicated them to a German nobleman and sent the manuscript as a gift, hoping to land a job as the court composer in Brandenburg. The nobleman never replied. Bach eventually took another job in Leipzig, where he lived for the rest of his life. The 6 concertos were lost for 130 years. They were never performed. The manuscript was eventually sold for about $20 and shelved in a library. The Brandenburg Concertos sat there until 1849, when they were discovered and published for the first time. Thank goodness!
Excellent! - Thanks
Thank you Caroline for that information. Who discovered the manuscripts, in wich library, who played them for the first time?
@@ASPOWER4 This is what I found : THE CONCERTOS LOST AND FOUND
The Margrave’s apparent disinterest in the concertos risked having them lost entirely, but kept them sufficiently preserved so that when they were eventually rediscovered - the manuscript was in great shape.
The Margrave died in 1734, at which time the manuscript was sold for roughly the equivalent of $24. Eventually, it ended up being found by the custodian of the Prussian royal library in 1849. The concertos were then published, for the first time, in 1850. They were given the name the “Brandenburg Concertos” in 1873, by Phillip Spitta in his biography of Bach.
The rare manuscript was almost lost again during World War II before another librarian stepped in to save the day. Due to heavy bombing and fighting in Germany, a librarian transported the manuscript out of the country. Unfortunately, his train fell under an aerial bombing as well. The librarian escaped into the forest with the work under his coat. It’s now safely housed in the Berlin State Library.
@@ASPOWER4 And I think someone said Mendelsshon ?
@@ASPOWER4 There used to be two sites on internet and I can't find them anymore. Sorry
The Brandenburg Concertos is what got me through my math classes in 1974, when I was getting an AAS in Electronic Technology from Queensborough Community College, (which was after my 4 yrs in the USAF). I would study in the library with my cassette player and ear plugs while listening. It's now Jan, 2025, and I listened and watched this performance with great pleasure. At almost 74 1/2, I'm still greatly affected by these concertos.
Thank you so much for putting this online.
No joke I listen to the concertos numerous times a day.
Good for you!
Bach was a miracle for the humanity.
It's because Bach has a christian worldview.
Beethoven
Bach was the emissary that God sent round the Universe as an example of what God can do. Pride is a human trait, but I wonder.
...is a miracle!
@@KenNickels If Bach, whose music is my favorite , was god's emissary, why would that god allow other Europeans of the same epoch to commit terrible atrocities in their quest to conquer the world?
This wonderful performance has a healing effect, and a panacea for the soul
How many times have all of us heard these concertos? This performance is the most sensitive, most spirited and most delicate I have ever heard - no exaggeration.
To be honest, I have never liked these concertos that much, but this time I had to stop and listen and leave a little comment on UA-cam.
until now my favourite was an older recording of Karl Richter, which most probably find outdated. But this is even nicer.
Ahhhh, I haven't listened to this for such a long time -this is nourishment to my soul ✨❤️✨❤️✨❤️
Glorious music!
Dank des famosen Freiburger Barockorchesters erklingt hier Barockmusik vom Allerfeinsten. Auch beim wiederholten Anhören wirkt diese erfrischende Interpretation reinigend auf die Seele. Musik für die Ewigkeit! Wie sagte doch Beethoven: Nicht BACH sondern MEER müsste er heißen. Bachs Musik ist monumental; aber sie bedarf keines monumentalen Aufführungsapparates. Das Freiburger Barockorchester liefert eine glänzende Bestätigung!
The FBO is a great ensemble.
7 people detest the detestable ads that sometimes intrude on this wonderful music.
In the Brandenburg Concerto # 2 the fantastic trumpet player barely seems to move, yet his play is as vivacious as that of his lively colleagues.
Bach, the climax of musical human creativity.
nah. mumble rap is
Of course
Dead heat with Beethoven. But yes! Both are on the Golden Records of course! The height of creativity.
Haim Shazar,
Up to that point in time, of course.
Been watching these over and over for years...always beautiful.
Same here
Performances were filmed and recorded 23-26 March, 2000, at Hall of Mirrors in Cöthen Palace, Anhalt District in Germany, where the composer served as Kapellmeister.
Mauricio Durón un that year i started playing violín
Thanks! Can we have a list of the musicians? They deserve recognition!
@@lidiawolanskyj5560
FREIBURGER BAROCKORCHESTER
Gottfried von der Goltz
Concerto no. 1 in F, BWV 1046
Daniela Helm, violino piccolo
Concerto no. 2 in G, BWV 1047
Friedemann Immer, trumpet
Isabel Crijnen, recorder
Katharina Arfken, oboe
Gottfried von der Goltz, violon
Concerto no. 4 in G, BWV 1049
Gottfried von der Goltz, violon
Isabel Crijnen & Thera de Clerk, violons
Concerto no. 5 in D, BWV 1050
Karl Kaiser, transverse flute
Gottfried von der Goltz, violon
Michael Behringer, cembalo
Concerto no. 6 in B flat Major, BWV 1051
Christian Goosses & Ulrike Kaufmann, viola.
Also, some guy named Dieter sat in an Audi outside, smoking a cigarette.
Almost every time I want to hear Bach, I want to hear Brandenburg. And this is the supreme performance, in my opinion! For awhile I could not find it here and was heartbroken. Thank you for posting again! And thank you, musicians, for such beautifully crafted performances of this timeless music. Surrounded at times by the "popular" music, this is so refreshing. Thank you, God, for creating JSBach, for his humility and willingness to share his gift with us. How wonderful it will be to meet him in heaven and hear him compose even more!!!!!
This wonderful performance is like a breath of fresh air, and quenches the aridity of the soul
Meine große Hochachtung! Wenn ich Euch musizieren sehe,mit welcher Inbrunst, es ist einfach Genuss. Ganz herzlichen Dank und alles Gute für Sie Karin Schmidt ❤🎉
The Brandenburg concert. Johann Sebastian Bach. Immortal music.
I love the Barockorchestra , you cannot get a closer performance of Bach. So gut, so gut.
Wunderschöön Barock-konzerten!!Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburgske Konzerten(1-6)Freiburger Barockorchester *Prima!
These six Bach concertos are possibly amongst the greatest Baroque works which cry out the great genius of Bach for music eclipsed only by his self-effacing humility. The Brandenburg concertos delight human ears taking the audience to an ecstasy that craves for more and more of it. Time stands still when you hear them with our mind and faculties engrossed over the great beauty of his music. When the heritage of man is evaluated and counted, a large and significant contribution to it would be the compositions of Bach the younger. Salutes to the great composer.
Peuh lease! Bach had what? 14 kids? a beloved wife. composed so much I have not heard it all. St Mathew's passion ring a bell? Or the Toccata and Fugue? Bach never ceased outperforming himself.
Christophe Fournier, Bach was father to 20 children, 7 with his first wife, and 13 with his second wife. But 9 or 10 of the children died before their father.
Why are you not a professional writer?
@@philipbay1548 Thanks. I am a writer by preference and do write regularly on topics of general public interest online as also of geographical, historical, environmental, artistic and scientific interest.
Very well stated: we must always find superlatives for Bach!
No. 1 (BWV 1046) 00:31
No. 2 (BWV 1047) 19:35
No. 3 (BWV 1048) 31:09
No. 4 (BWV 1049) 41:45
No. 5 (BWV 1050) 57:26
No. 6 (BWV 1051) 1:17:11
Grazie
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Thanks
Thank You!
thank you! now I wish someone would take the effort to timestamp the individual movements! lol
Amazing that this was likely never heard performed to it's fullest in his lifetime... only to be unearthed later to inspire generations. Wish he could hear this.
Einer der besten, dieser Johann Sebastian Krach!
Bach's music is so transcendental.
Bach's beautiful mind = My tears of joy.
this is my favourite performance of the brandenbourg concertos!
In the right setting,say alone in an old empty villa with wooden parket floors, with a view of the north sea, and your eyes closed, you can travel back in time with this performance, closest you get to time travel 🍷
So Sooooo Terrifically Beautiful......................
Black eye danger!! Heavenly music , natural Horns. Expressive Body movements.
all period instruments. Absolutely wonderful.
Expressive body movements? Didn't their teachers ever explain to them how to sit still? For Christ's sake, it looks like a puppet show.
do you play anything, dead wood ingrate?
yes
@Dònal Brügge These musicians are too hammy for me. This is my opinion. If you enjoy watching them pulling faces and exaggerating the body unnecessarily, then this is good for you. No big deal. I find it corny. Old fashioned teachers would slap the student who behaves like this. It is a self indulgent distraction from the music. "Hey everyone, watch me now!" Give me a break.
@Dònal Brügge Then we agree, because a certain amount of body movement is part of playing any instrument. These folks are playing for the camera more than to the ear. They may as well be on Lawrence Welk.
If we apply the passion in which the Brandenburgs are played, particulary the 3rd. movt. of the #3 Allegro (Joy, Alegria) in our lives, in everything we do......imagine the quality of life....Thanks, God for JS Bach.
Wow!!! such a talented ensemble is the Freiburger Barockorchestra, a deluxe group of sensible artists,BRAVO!!!!
There's something about watching the musicians "bobbing and weaving" while playing that makes me feel like they're "into" the music and not just playing the notes.
@@Zimster2000 100% agree🎶👍
Herr Von der Goltz’s facial expressions in the first movement of Brandenburg No. 1 are delightful!
I always listen to the Brandenbergs every holiday season. This year I am enjoying this performance and video, one of the best versions I've ever heard. Using authentic Baroque instruments gives these gems a feeling that simply cannot be attained with modern instruments. Magnificent performances and video.
It's Burg (Castle), not Berg (Mountain).
@@Implosionstechnologie Thank you. I stand corrected.
always every ?
@@cohoegravitino5559 Yes. They are a staple of my holiday listening.
The cameras direction is brilliant
Honestly, one of the best interpretations.
Johann would be delighted. This is the best.
I can't stop marveling at how we started with a relatively full orchestra even including brass and we're essentially down to a sextet of tenor and bass strings by the end. Also the tonal leap from D major to B flat major after an hour of fairly stable tonality is striking.
It is really great for times of plague. You start with a lot of musicians, but in the end...
@@u.v.s.5583 most underrated comment 😁
@@thelonelyviolin 😂
It's wonderful watching this group, so animated.
Breathtaking J.S.Bach´s work and heritage for us, the future generations! Amazing, ever!
Bravo,, este uncocert foarte bun de tot, muzica clasica baroc e viata mea, îmi NOBILEAZA sufletul, va mulțumesc
I do a lot of freelance writing. When I write, I always have music playing...and it's mostly classical and, when it's classical, it's mostly J.S. Bach. I find he helps my concentration and creativity. How can you not like this?
The best of classic music!
Freiburger Barockorchestra - Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos No. 1-6 (BWV 1046-1051)
are the Bach Gold Standard. We always come back to them.
❤
32:40 love this quick recognition they have … they really enjoy playing together and Bach
A pleasure to listen and watch.
Great performance, and I'm marveling at the periodic instruments and setting! Amazing what natural horn players can do!!
He might be on PEDs, who knows
@@HerbalistGuybrush 😂😂😂
magnificent! no everyone can play Bach as well as this orchestra
Fantastic performance. Without the video portion of the presentation you would have no idea horn and woodwind players were using period instruments. What dedication. The art of the impossible.
You are not the only one who knows about the period instruments. And of course there they are; very possible, indeed.
Marvelous!!!, why is that my heart and soul are so deeply touched by this supreme music?,why?,...probably because it is the divine code God gave us to express our feelings...deep, simple, abstract, all at the same time!!! Thanks God for music, thanks for this composition Johann Sebastian Bach!!!!
erreur John , pour certain la musique éloigne de dieu : "t d j" et musulm !
ils ont bien compris la supériorité de la musique sur dieu
Bach est un homme , comme Mozart leurs esprit est supérieur !
c'est de la musique " spirituelle " !
Bach was a man made by God....so music is still for me that divine code The Lord gave us all, in order to express our feelings, migths, hopes,etc, as well a s to comunicate with Him. I respect your idea evnthough, and wish for you as well all the best. Saludos para usted, que Dios lo bendiga también.
@@dardanus41
Dear Sir,
"De Gustibus Non Disputandum Est" (in Latin - I'm sure you understand).
Do me Mr. Johann Sebastian Bach's (yes !) DIVINE Music all the time ! Though I know many cantatas and sonatas by heart, it still amazes me and touches my heart every time I hear them. Imho Mr. J. S. Bach was - and still is - the greatest composer EVER !
Btw. do you know the (world famous) Thomanerchor Leipzig ? They are no doubt the very best choir in the world - their performances of Mr. J. S. Bach's Cantatas are.. absolutely perfect !
Blessed Be
❤😊😊❤
Yours sincerely, Raven Timish, amateur Baroque/Renaissance musician & (Music) historian.
hope he sees this bro
I LOVE Bach....thanks so much for posting this piece of art.
man, I love the Brandenburg concertos!
Bach makes you see wonderful things.
Thanks to everyone involved.
Δεν υπάρχουν λόγια που να μπορούν να εκφράσουν το χρέος και την απύθμενη ευγνωμοσύνη που έχει η ανθρωπότητα απέναντι στο συνθέτη, που με τόση αβίαστη ευκολία την ομόρφυνε. Αν ποτέ η ανθρωπότητα μπει στην ιστορία του σύμπαντος, σίγουρα θα ευθύνεται για αυτό και η μνημειακή αυτή μουσική, ως δείγμα υψηλής ανθρώπινης ευφυίας και γούστου. Αυτές οι ηχογραφήσεις γίνανε το 2000 στα πλαίσια παγκόσμιου τηλεμαραθώνιου στις 28 Ιουλίου λόγω συμπλήρωσης 250 ετών από το θάνατο του αρχιμουσικού, μεταδίδοντας 24 ώρες μόνο συνθέσεις του
Ajá, fue por los 250 años de la partida de Bach a la eternidad
Great.A big applause.Thank you very much
Beautiful. Wonderful ensemble sonorities.
Takes us to wonder wonderland. Thank you for uploading! Saved my day 🦄
Simply elegant.
Polished trumpet ,fantastic player,man its high accurate and brilliant
Really? Sorry to be a wet blanket but I think the trumpet was off, really off... I suppose a period instrument is much harder to play than a modern one, but even so... I'm thinking of Winston Marsalis (with Katherine Battle). What a difference. Sorry again, I don't mean to offend.
@@musicfanBRA Natural trumpet is a whole different ballgame. This player is exceptional! Nuff said.
This is highly virtuosic and simply wonderful! Thank you all!
I love the baroque instruments with all of their specialities and the baroque way of performing - highly skilled work! Excellent!
Oh, by the way: In my mind the photographers did an excellent job as well - congrats!
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I mean it's a nice joke in a way, but it simply doesn't fit in here ...!
Bach's music is the only thing that makes me think of the existence of God
un sommet de musicalité,un chemin de lumière
This is beyond Beautiful, soul healing therapy ❤
Brave, bold, brilliant…..Bach!!!!
I think it's interesting to note the way the musicians are compelled to move as they play, especially the violinists, leaning, swaying, dipping, to the inspiration of a particular passage in the music.
Bach le génie de l'enfance retrouvée : musiques ludiques et mélodies mélancoliques se succèdent avec succès.
Bach is an eternal and divine beauty
Great!
J.S.BACH: un gigante formidabile indimenticabile affascinante eccezionale e poi TUTTO. ...
Bach & Motzart: Streets ahead of their time !
Love them both; and the sheer voloume of brilliant, adaptable music they wrote is astounding. Almost anything in their repetoire can be be played (with the right muscian- as this site shows) on any instrument.
Truly wonderful to hear.
You are quite wrong on the first two things you wrote. Bach was not ahead of his time, he was clinging to the old dense harmonic style and trying to perfect polyphonic music which had been invented and developed by many before him. being the last "dinausor" of that era, he epitomized the polyphonic genre. As for Mozart he distinguished himself by the originality of his compositions but their genre and forms are in line with contemporary composers of his time. There were many other composers that wrote individual works at least that are better than some of the less popular works from major composers ( Corelli, Froberger, Geminiani, Telemann for Bach).
even so, he wrote at as a fast a speed as Mozart who may have started younger. Bach was one of the first to introduce chorale and orchestra to his keyboard based music.
As this example of Toccatta and Fuge in D, shows, his work can be trascribed for any instrument. It is still techinically difficult, in the same way as Mozart and Chopin were, but they were 50 years later than Bach.
Notwithstanding he techinicalties Bach is still the mozart musician and composer of his era,
Not at all. Your amalgamating/confusing the views we have of Mozart and Bach today with how they were viewed in their lifetimes. Mozart was a star in his living days he was popular and well known whereas Bach was not particularly well regarded at all. It is well known that Telemann a contemporary of Bach was much more popular than him. It is only more than a century later that Bach music resurfaced whereas Telemann's fell into oblivion. Do not make a parallel between Bach and Mozart. Completely different lives, different approach to writting music and different paths to posterity. Mozart was a child prodigy, Bach was a choir singer as a boy, he developed his musicianship without having to leave the kernel of his family which were all musicians. Unlike mozart who was forced to show off public prowess as "wunderkind". If you don't really know about their biographies you should not post erroneous simplifications.
***** Many more than those two?? about Bach?? who? please tell us, will be outstanding and wonderful knowing that there' more composers like JS Bach
NikkkitoNippongo Froberger, Corelli, Scarlatti, Geminiani, Telemann. Handel were all Bach contemporaries. Some of their work is better than some of Bach's work and vice-versa. We should listen to the best each has to offer and not limit ourselves to everything Bach wrote as the quality of his output was not always even.
I love Bach's music, as he's my favorite composer, and entirely agree with you. Bravíssimo!
La música compuesta por Bach, no deja de sorprender.cada vez se escuchan nuevos matices
This is the best concert , takes me to higher self.. Awesome spirituality experience..
ENORME orquesta !! " Orchestra di Cámera " Enorme !!
that Harpsichord melts my heart !!
This is unbelievably good.
It’s so good to see the actual musicians, I had this album and could only listen to the music, but now I can actually see them perform!
Bach is back !!! cool jam ! du vrai pipeau, on en danse de bonheur !
Well played...
Il mio primo ascolto di Bach fu nel 1992 con i Brandenburghesi Edicola offers 5 Euro 3 CD 💿💿💿❤ Da allora Bach non mi annoia maiii. È infinito e Sorprendente dopo 32 anni 😊🙏✨🎇🎆🌌🌞🪐👑🎼🎹🎻🎻📯🎺🎺🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Horn playing is exceptional!
Came for 31:15, stayed for an hour and a half. Bravo Bach !
Outstanding!!
Made my day!!
Dankeshoen
You have managed to gather such an exquisite ensemble in Freiburg, heck there are many places in the world where you can't gather such a gifted ensemble from a whole country even), God save Germany!
Just totally marvelous in every way. Thanks so much for making my life better!
Delightful! Thank you for taking the time to perform these works on such lovely instruments, and in this historic setting.
BARROQUE MUSIC, THE BEST EVER.
One thousand upvotes.
Absolutely.
yes!!
Yes, when it's played by musicians like these, who bring it to life! I'm not keen on Baroque music performed by non-period ensembles.
spannend, schwungvoll und trotzdem unaufgeregt. top notch.
lovely, conducting w his eyebrows and body movements
Superb.
Best music in the world.
This is just immense.
Wunderbare !
by far my favorite way to experience this is this vid!
An absolutely wonderful period instruments rendition! BRAVISSIMO!
I love it, thank you.
Gênio dos Gênios Johann Sebastian Bach !!!!
wonderful
Who remembers Christian Ludwig Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt today? Nobody. And yet the grovelling dedication of these immortal works of genius would make it seem that the Margrave was somebody great and Back a mere "Handwerker".
Marvellous, great, beautiful, thank you so much to all of you.
Picked up this DVD after watching it here. Might not have gotten it otherwise. Thanks!