Bach - Allegro from Brandenburg concerto no. 2 in F major BWV 1047 | Netherlands Bach Society

Like the set of ‘Brandenburg' concertos as a whole, this Allegro from the ‘Brandenburg’ Concerto No. 2 - recorded here for All of Bach with Shunske Sato - is also a piece for several instruments and the notes on paper would suggest that all four soloists (oboe, trumpet, recorder and violin) are equal. Yet one of the soloists is ‘more equal’ than the others: the trumpet player has an undeniable starring role
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Recorded for the project All of Bach on October 2nd 2018 at TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
This recording has been dedicated to Albert Sheen.
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Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato, violin and direction
Neil Brough, trumpet
Emma Black, oboe
Pedro Castro, recorder

[@valerieschoen7494]

What a blast it must be to play this piece on any instrument.

[@bfjones1198]

I can tell you that the trumpet part is nothing but pain

[@onewhogetsbread9975]

And I almost pass out when I play the recorder part at this tempo

[@SebastianWeinberg]

An outstanding performance of one of the truly immortal pieces of music in existence.

[@robkerr-hislop9753]

I love the exuberance of this movement. It speaks to me of the fun that Bach has in his music. It's not all serious and religious. Wow!

[@lacrimis_solis]

2 years ago?! How🤯

[@Camelith]

@@lacrimis_solis recorded in 2018 so quite possibly uploaded years ago and may have been accidentally public for a very short time before being unlisted

[@bonconfidant7514]

2018? Then I must ask: Is Mr. Sato still with NBS today? I heard he resigned as musical director some years back but didn't know if he stayed on as concertmaster?

[@user-ue2cg5wb3i]

Always Bach👏👏👏👏👏🌷💙

[@SilvioNobre]

Bach is the beauty of life. ❤️🥰

[@CanadianDivergent]

and Bach on trumpet is its ultimate expression of that beauty!

[@randomobserver683]

Amen

[@lenaN5k8Q9]

Bach always expresses so much beauty and emotion in his music, love it ❤Thank's

[@adamastorBassBar]

I've loved this piece since the age of 8 or 9 years' old (....a recording by the Hamburger Kammerorchester conducted by English conductor Harry Newstone, if anyone's interested...). Such a joyous piece.

[@michaelraghib1897]

I’ve listened to this music many times as most of you, and I thought this was known territory. This version is so extraordinary, it made me feel like it was the first time I heard it. I think they have cracked a very difficult problem, how to set up a team of highly performing individuals, incredibly talented each of them, and create the illusion that while performing what matters is the music, and not the individual egos.

[@katbullar]

What a superb interpretation. It's the best!

[@lorenzo8486]

Trumpeter simply outstanding

[@gustavosalcedo3092]

Greetings. Stunning performance of great beauty!!! Johann Sebastian Bach forever!

[@seannyandme]

Wow Neil did an absolutely amazing job!!

[@TheGloryofMusic]

Albert Schweitzer wrote: "The Brandenburg concertos are the purest products of Bach's polyphonic style. We seem to see before us what the philosophy of all ages conceives as the fundamental mystery of all things--that self-unfolding of the idea in which it creates its own opposite in order to overcome it, until it finally returns to itself having traversed the whole of existence".

[@gabrieleferrari9383]

Thank you for this comment: this sounds quite hegelian! I am a fan Have a good day

[@drvonkrauss490]

En un viaje a las aguas de Carlsbad, J.S. Bach acompañaba a su protector el Principe Leopoldo y allí conoce al Margrave de Brandeburgo, Su alteza real Monseñor Cristian Luis, quien le encomienda una composición instrumental. Un año después, 24 de marzo de 1.721, J.S. Bach completa su obra y se la envía desde Cöthen con una dedicatoria _en français_ Hoy la conocemos como Los conciertos de Brandeburgo. Apenas me puedo imaginar la emoción de Bach al terminar su obra y firmarla.

[@andrearodigari4840]

No words. Too beautiful.

[@Kai07199]

I love these concerto because it gives me goosebumps

[@dayleennis7662]

Superb!!!!❤

[@mradisic11]

Thanks NBS for sharing ❤

[@beatrixpluhar8520]

😊Thanks 🌹💐🌷Absolutely amazing music 🎶🎵🎻✨🎇❤️🥂

[@bruintjebeer3016]

NBS is always as clear as a bell.

[@LearnCompositionOnline]

Perfect ❤

[@Maltravers2011]

Magnificent!

[@TheSoteriologist]

Brilliant !

[@marianafancio2388]

THANKS for this! Greets from Argentina

[@davidgleba3832]

Bravissimi!

[@CanadianDivergent]

Bravo!

[@randomobserver683]

Divine ❤

[@Asiklara18]

Great!!!

[@joaquincarrasconaranjo2217]

simplemente genial

[@juanferreira5931]

I am not a religious man, yet I can admire and appreciate Bach's profound faith that shines in his every creation. I believe every thing he wrote was to the greater glory of his god.

[@philippepiotrowski5351]

Bach est la seule preuve de l'existence de Dieu

[@Baraodojaguary]

​@@philippepiotrowski5351bach isn't the only proof but its a great one

[@herrickinman9303]

Oh, stop. Bach, Handel and Graupner all inscribed "SDG" (soli deo gloria) on their works. Artists since the Middle Ages have done the same.

[@Baraodojaguary]

@herrickinman9303 Sadly, Soli Deo Gloria has become one of the rallying cries of heresy

[@tuppyglossop222]

God could not exist without Bach.

[@bernardbazaud8294]

Fameux virtuose de la trompette naturelle !

[@AndrzejPorebski-uz4mb]

Znakomicie.Przywołaliście Bacha.WOW !!!!.Wspaniała Matematyka

[@gabrieleferrari9383]

Grazie per questa resa molto vivace del pezzo: purtroppo il prezzo da pagare è che viene un pochetto meno l'indipendenza delle parti, così netta in altre versioni, in favore di una maggiore unitarietà; poco male: l'una versione andrà bene per alcuni tipi di giornata, l'altra per altri. Grazie ancora Gabriele

[@gavrinmahaffey3656]

🔥

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

Magic.

[@antoninopirrone2541]

❤❤

[@coewlho]

❤❤❤❤

[@Schleiermacher1000]

Wonderful! Bach now in bite-size pieces?

[@beethov3n]

Raymond Reddington plying the trumpet

[@Richard.Atkinson]

The only movement in this concerto marked “Allegro” (allegro assai) is the third movement. This movement has no tempo marking (and even if it did, the video title would still not tell you which movement it was). Why not change it to “First Movement?”

[@kh-bd5ye]

The best for me ist max pommer from about 1985, trumpet= güttler

[@SVETLANKA139]

🌷🌹🌷🌹🌷🌹🌷🌹🌷🌹🌷🌹🌷🌹🌷

[@renatobdacosta]

Is it my impression or during several particular solos the camera focuses on other instruments?

[@ivandemiguelurain7649]

I have the same feeling. Somewhat strange

[@BsktImp]

02:54-02:55 What happened with the volume?

[@germansnowman]

Yes, I also think there is a stereo issue at that point.

[@kilihito1]

佐藤さん、山縣さんもお疲れさまです。ありがとうございます。 最後の　(￣ー￣)ﾆﾔﾘｯ　←　いいですね(´ω`*)

[@egcbcclark6042]

美しすぎる😿

[@cestpartiavecsara]

[@alpinoalpini3849]

Like some other viewer wrote: too fast. Just as most people eat too fast, we don't let music breath much these days. Some phrases need a bit more time to be heard, remembered and digested. I would love to HEAR those first 4 solo entrances instead of looking at them fly by like a freeway sign from a car window.

[@user-ej8ij4we9u]

an allegretto version :) yeah, back to Slava Richter and S. Celibidache

[@alpinoalpini3849]

@@user-ej8ij4we9u You missed the point, baby. The first one played Bach like a robot and the other one didn't care for HIP. This performance IS rushed. It should still be an allegro - and I did not give you any metronomic marking ;-)

[@michaelhaslam6089]

@@alpinoalpini3849 Can you give us a MM?

[@alpinoalpini3849]

@@michaelhaslam6089 Ha! Are you kidding me with this? I'm sure you understand what I mean. In any case, here they are playing at 107/quarter note. Pretty much anything around 96-100 would help, I guess. Besides, the fast tempo is not the only thing in this recording. The whole thing feels breathless. I played continuo (harpsichord) in many performances of the Brandenburg concertos, and listened to countless recordings of them. I also tend to prefer brisk(er) tempos for Bach's music. In all, it's about perceiving the music, not only playing it. I love and respect most of what these musicians and the Bach Netherland Society do, but this performance is...selfish ;-) Cheers.

[@michaelhaslam6089]

@@alpinoalpini3849 You’re so dogmatic!

[@jeromepatterson1541]

Sounds great,but I find all the moving around impossible to watch .

[@lacrimis_solis]

🫶🫶🫶

[@massimolanzini3014]

Warum so schnell?

[@salemsokiredor9225]

Fantastic musicianship for this incredible composition. It would help, if the video editing had some insight into the parts; whenever a solo instrument performs it’s part, the camera shows something else but the soloist, and that is surprisingly poor for this level of performance!

[@Ala13ManOWar]

Great performance quality wise, though excessive tempo as usual... Sadly that makes it unsubstantial

[@fegarcia7]

Too fast

[@IU3EVR]

too fast

[@Biber0315]

Much too fast! Presumably so to ease the part for the trumpet (time on the lip). But it's also at the wrong pitch level. Why doesn't anybody ever do these at court pitch (A=398)? It's music intended for the court after all. I think there's maybe 1 recording done at that pitch. The lower pitch allows for a darker and much less strained timbre, and it brings the trumpet (the outlier) more in line with the timbre of the other solo instruments. The trumpet player should also ditch the tone holes, save for maybe 1, which allow for louder and more aggressive playing. But's that's another topic entirely.

[@handavid6421]

왜 재탕함?

[@drvonkrauss490]

그리고 왜 안돼?

[@handavid6421]

@@drvonkrauss490 새로 나온 줄 알고 가슴 두근거리면서 헐래벌덕 왔는데 이미 본거라서 좀

[@jopmens6960]

I think its amazing music but also some of the most silly kooky sounds these flutes or recorders etc are making, to the point of laughter.

[@tjjenkin42]

What? These are period instruments.