It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...
Fluently stylish and idiomatic, the performers live and breathe Bach's music with as much immediacy as if it had been composed yesterday. The first cantata on the album, BWV 195, is a joyous ...